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title: Multi-Agent World Model
type: vocabulary
url: "https://www.envisioning.com/vocab/multi-agent-world-model"
summary: A world model enabling multiple participants to share and interact within the same simulation in real time
year: 2026
generality: 0.65
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# Multi-Agent World Model

A world model enabling multiple participants to share and interact within the same simulation in real time
A multi-agent world model is a world model that enables multiple participants — human or AI — to share and interact within the same world simulation in real time, with every participant experiencing a consistent generated world simultaneously.

Traditional world models have been limited to a single active participant within simulated environments. Multi-agent world models extend this by maintaining an explicit shared world state between participants and generating consistent views from multiple independent viewpoints.

This enables applications such as multiplayer games, collaborative robotics, and multi-view simulation. The interaction space grows combinatorially with the number of participants, creating emergent behaviors like coordinated movement, contested objectives, and collisions that cannot arise in single-agent settings.

Scaling multi-agent interaction to foundation world models without compromising open-ended behavior or generality remains an open research problem.

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Source: Envisioning — Technology Research Institute (https://www.envisioning.com/vocab/multi-agent-world-model)