An academic lab in the United Arab Emirates today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language models (LLMs), and a new research center in Silicon Valley as the country ramps up its investment in the field. Eric Xing, president and professor of MBZUAI and a leading AI researcher, revealed the models and lab at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, today. MBZUAI today also revealed ​​PAN-Agent, an experimental AI agent trained to perform reasoning tasks within the PAN world model. Earlier this week, Google’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, stressed the importance of world modeling to his company’s AI plans. Besides the new world model, MBZUAI announced two new large language models (LLMs) at today’s event.