Eric Xing

President of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and professor with deep expertise in machine learning, computational biology, and healthcare AI, known for work on Pan World Model, K2 Think, and research spanning statistical ML and systems.

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Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 4min

#351 Will World Models Bring us AGI? with Eric Xing, President & Professor at MBZUAI

Eric Xing, President of MBZUAI and leading ML researcher, explains world models as simulators that move AI from book knowledge to physical and social skills. He discusses long-horizon planning, architectures like PAN that mix symbolic and generative components, evaluation beyond pixel fidelity, robotics and driving use cases, synthetic data and virtual cells for science, and the push for open K2 Think models.

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