This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

Danijar Hafner’s stealth startup builds humanoid robots that use model-based reinforcement learning, training agents in AI world models that simulate physical reality so they can plan and act in unfamiliar real-world environments. His prior work produced the PlaNet and Dreamer series, with Dreamer 4 achieving human-level Minecraft performance by learning solely from offline video data.