MEETUP · SAN FRANCISCO
Title: Bay Area Frontier Research Club #30 | Worlds for Agents (dinner + paper discussion @ SignalFire)
Worlds for Agents: World Models and the Agents That Learn Inside Them A Frontier Research Club session hosted at SignalFire. If a model can generate a world, an agent can practice in it.
- When
- Wed, Nov 4
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM PT - Where
- South Beach, San Francisco, CA
- Host
- the frontier syndicate
- Entry
- Free to attend
About this event
Worlds for Agents: World Models and the Agents That Learn Inside Them
A Frontier Research Club session hosted at SignalFire.
If a model can generate a world, an agent can practice in it. This session asks how far that loop actually goes.
World models promise to make agent training cheap: generate a world, let an agent act in it, score the attempt, repeat. In late 2025, DeepMind's SIMA 2 agent kept improving inside worlds generated by Genie 3, with no new human demonstrations. Whether this scales comes down to two open questions: can a generated world hold together for longer than a few minutes, and do skills learned inside one carry over to the real world?
Bonnie Li is a Research Scientist at OpenAI. At Google DeepMind, she worked on Gemini, the Genie world models and SIMA 2, and she began her research career at Mila with Yoshua Bengio.
Pre-reads go to confirmed guests the week before. Come having read them; the discussion starts at depth.
The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI. We convene researchers from the frontier labs, Stanford, Berkeley and leading startups to examine concrete work (papers, methods and results) with a bias toward assumptions, evaluation methodology, failure modes, and what would count as convincing evidence.
Each session features 2 talks selected for rigor and discussion value. Presen...
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