Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation

Driving World Models and Closed-Loop Simulation

Generative models of road scenes that predict how traffic responds to the vehicle's actions, used to train and test driving systems.

Tier Grades

feasible

Tier A: Frontier AI labs

feasible

Wayve built GAIA-1 and Waymo built its world model on Genie 3.

not feasible

Tier B: Indonesian AI labs

not feasible

The GAIA-1 abstract gives no compute or data size and the sources show only fleet operators as builders.

stretch

Tier C: Institution units such as ITB

stretch

Institution units could evaluate open NVIDIA Cosmos world models for driving, but no compute anchor is sourced.

stretch

Tier D: Organisations such as SEMAI (PoT, PoC, PoV)

stretch

Delivery work could use a vendor driving world model to test scenarios such as mine haulage, but none is shown open for that use.

Where this comes from
Tiers: a) frontier AI labs, b) Indonesian AI labs, c) institution units such as ITB, d) organisations such as SEMAI delivering proof of technology, concept and value. Each rationale cites the anchors below.

Anchors

  • ComputeGAIA-1: compute and parameter count not stated in the abstract.
  • DataGAIA-1: video, text and action inputs mapped to discrete tokens and modelled as next-token prediction.
  • Team size (proxy)Proxy only (author count of an exemplar paper, not a headcount): 8 authors on the GAIA-1 paper (arXiv 2309.17080).
  • Time horizonMulti-year.
  • Shelf-life signalsWaymo built the Waymo World Model on Genie 3, a general world model, rather than on a driving-only model.
  • Pipeline roleTier A fleet operators build driving world models; Tier C could evaluate open ones; Tier D could use vendor simulators for scenario testing in mining or logistics.
Where this comes from
Team size is a proxy (author counts of exemplar papers), not a headcount.

Who and What

Exemplars
WayveGAIA-1WayveGAIA-3WaymoWaymo World Model
Observed actors
WayveWayveWaymoWaymoTeslaTeslaNVIDIANVIDIAHuawei (Huawei Cloud)Huawei (Huawei Cloud)
Linked models
WaymoWaymo World ModeldrivingexemplarWayveGAIA-3drivingexemplarWayveGAIA-1drivingexemplarTeslaTesla World Simulatorworld modelproduced byGoogle DeepMindGenie 3world modelused byWayveGAIA-2drivingproduced byHuawei (Huawei Cloud)Pangu Multimodal and World Modelworld modelproduced byWayveGAIAworld modelproduced by

Papers

Where this comes from
The papers to read first: where the direction began, its current best, and a survey when one exists.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2309.17080 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17080
  2. Genie (world model) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(AI_model)

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Driving World Models and Closed-Loop Simulation", https://aurion.semai.id/topics/driving-world-models-and-simulation/, records of October 2026.