PAN 2 Opens World-Model Training
IFM’s PAN 2 is an open world model for physical intelligence that combines a multimodal LLM’s structured planning with a 29B diffusion model to simulate action outcomes in video. Its Apache 2.0 release includes weights, training code, and inference code.
PAN 2 matters less as a polished video generator than as an open sandbox for agents to rehearse decisions before acting.
- –Separating conceptual planning from perceptual rendering makes simulations more inspectable and extensible
- –Agents can compare counterfactual futures instead of executing the first plausible action
- –IFM reports 75.1% step accuracy but only 34% full-plan completion, underscoring major reliability gaps
- –The 29B model and multi-stage pipeline create a substantial hardware barrier for experimentation
- –Apache 2.0 licensing could accelerate research into embodied agents and learned simulators
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2026-11-10
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