"Within six months, every company will call themselves a world model company just to raise money."

That's the prediction coming out of AMI Labs — Yann LeCun's $1 billion AI research fund. We spoke about what world models actually are, why they matter for construction, and why the hype cycle is already loading.

We also had Lena-Marie Pätzmann from Sitegeist on the show — a TU Munich spin-out building robots for concrete renovation. The use case: high pressure water lancing, deployed as a subcontractor, starting with parking garages. Their robot fits in a van. Their margins are strong. And the customers came to them.

Tune in to find out about:

✅ What world models are and why they're different from LLMs

✅ How to evaluate construction software without getting burned by legacy tech stacks

✅ Why Volkswagen just cut 50,000 jobs and what European energy costs have to do with it

✅ How Sitegeist is building robotic concrete renovation from a university lab into a real construction business

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00:00 Intro

01:00 Introduction to World Models and AI Trends

02:03 Industry News: Funding Rounds in AI and Construction Tech

03:10 Personal Updates and Industry Challenges

05:07 The Complexity of CRM Implementation in Construction

07:13 The Role of Venture Capital in Software Development

09:54 Diving into World Models: What Are They?

13:00 Funding and Research in AI: Yann LeCun's Billion-Dollar Round

16:36 The Hype Around World Models and Their Promise

24:24 Understanding World Models: Beyond Chatbots

27:09 Implications of World Models for Construction Industry

44:10 Summary and Closing Remarks