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The companies building driving world models.
Every major autonomous driving company is building or using driving world models.
The term is spoken in boardrooms, investor decks, and engineering standups
across the industry.
Wayve
GAIA-1 / GAIA-2 / GAIA-3
"Generative AI world model that can generate realistic driving videos." Most advanced generative driving world model. London.
$1.05B raised
NVIDIA
Cosmos Platform
World foundation models for physical AI. Paying for Google Ads on "driving world models." Synthetic data at scale.
$3.4T market cap
Waabi
Neural Simulator
World model-based autonomous trucking. Uber Freight partnership. "Copilot4D" unsupervised world model.
$750M Series C
Waymo
Foundation Model
"Versatile, state-of-the-art world model powering our AI ecosystem." Dec 2025. Alphabet-backed.
Alphabet
Mobileye
World Modeling Architecture
CES 2026 keynote featured "world modeling" as core next-gen architecture for autonomous driving.
Intel subsidiary
comma.ai
Learned World Model
"Learning to Drive from a World Model." End-to-end driving policies trained in simulation. Open-source pioneer.
Consumer AV leader