MBZUAI Open-Sources 29B World Model PAN 2 for Physical AI
11/11/2026 — 11/11, 17:20·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- MBZUAI's Foundation Model Institute has released PAN 2, an Apache 2.0-licensed world model for physical AI. It pairs an LLM planner with a 2…
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According to MarkTechPost, on November 11, 2026, the Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI released PAN 2. It is an Apache 2.0 world model that couples an LLM planner with a 29B diffusion transformer. The model can simulate up to 20 seconds of action outcomes as video and is aimed at physical AI.
No further developments have been reported, and the release team has not published additional details. For now, the story stands at this point: PAN 2 has been open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. Whether it is already available for download, or when it will reach users, is not stated in the available material.
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Latest turnMarkTechPost reports that MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models has released PAN 2, an Apache 2.0-licensed world model. It combines an LLM planner with a 29B diffusion transformer to simulate action outcomes as video for up to 20 seconds, targeting physical AI.
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MarkTechPost reports that MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models has released PAN 2, an Apache 2.0-licensed world model. It combines an LLM planner with a 29B diffusion transformer to simulate action outcomes as video for up to 20 seconds, targeting physical AI.
MarkTechPostAI score 61IFM has released PAN 2, a general-purpose world model, on Hugging Face. Given an optional image plus actions described in text, it simulates the outcome as a video of up to 20 seconds, so an agent can imagine how each candidate plan would play out before picking one.
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