🤖 The World as a Program: Report on Programmable World Model Released
Alaya Lab has published the technical report and project page for PWM (arXiv:2609.10540). The framework separates world state from video generation: text and a single reference frame are translated into an executable program — entity states and transition rules, while a deterministic compiler controls a pretrained video model "renderer". In the demo, entities are preserved outside the frame, events are irreversible, and the scene lasts 897 frames.
🌍 Response to the weakness of world models (Genie, Cosmos, Sora): world memory is hidden in frame history, entities outside the frame are forgotten, and rules cannot be explicitly defined. Such a world is programmable and reproducible — a foundation for simulations and game mechanics.
👤 The report and demo are available now; code and weights are not released — keep AlayaLab/PWM on watch: according to the roadmap, inference code and pretrained weights are next.
Source 1: https://alaya-lab.github.io/pwm/ Source 2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10540