News Summary

• Danijar Hafner, 31, left Google to start a new startup in San Francisco.
• He's been developing AI models designed to emulate physical reality.
• Hafner’s technique enables agents and the robots they control to execute massively complicated tasks without the real-world trial-and-­error training.
• He worked with industry legends including Geoffrey Hinton, who is often referred to as one of the godfathers of AI, and Ashish Vaswani, coauthor of the groundbreaking research paper “Attention Is All You Need”