Essays on human–AI interaction

Can LLMs Jump? A Beginner's Guide to JEPA and Multi-Modality World Models

Why LLMs can't make the creative leap from data to discovery, and how JEPA — Yann LeCun's world-model architecture — might finally close the gap between language models and real reasoning.

<Figure src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1XK5ExC213y4eh3kWvdI8Qw.png" alt="Illustration for a beginner's guide to JEPA and world models" ratio="landscape" /> Did we just use too many words and make the whole blog incomprehensible? No — but stick with me. Because by the end of this you'll see how the algorithms of the future could help us stumble into new scientific discoveries, new inventions, entire fields we haven't named yet. And to get there, we have to start somewhere a little unexpected. Not…