Trillion Labs and KAIST AI have released gWorld, a family of open-weight visual world models (VLM) designed for mobile GUIs. The models, available in 8B and 32B parameter versions, stand out for their ability to generate executable web code (HTML/CSS/JS) instead of directly predicting screen pixels.

Architecture and Performance

The core idea behind gWorld is that, by predicting web code, the model leverages the strong priors that VLMs have already acquired during pre-training on structured web data. This approach combines precise text rendering with high-fidelity visuals. In the MWMBench benchmarks, gWorld 8B outperformed models up to 50 times its size, including Llama 4 Maverick (402B), achieving an average accuracy of 74.9%. The 32B version reached 79.6%. The render failure rate is less than 1%, significantly better than the 40% of the Qwen3 VL 8B model before fine-tuning.

Implications and Potential

gWorld's ability to generate web code opens new possibilities for the development of GUI agents. By eliminating the need for real Android emulators for each rollout, world models can enable massively parallel rollouts on pure compute. This could significantly accelerate the training of GUI agents with online reinforcement learning. The models also generalize well across different languages, as demonstrated by the KApps (Korean applications) benchmark.

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