"Google DeepMind is opening up access to Project Genie, its AI tool for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts or images. Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with the experimental research prototype, which is powered by a combination of Google's latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini. Coming five months after Genie 3's research preview, the move is part of a broader push to gather user feedback and training data as DeepMind races to develop more capable world models."
"World models are AI systems that generate an internal representation of an environment, and can be used to predict future outcomes and plan actions. Many AI leaders, including those at DeepMind, believe world models are a crucial step to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). But in the nearer term, labs like DeepMind envision a go-to-market plan that starts with video games and other forms of entertainment and branches out into training embodied agents (aka robots) in simulation."
Project Genie is now available to U.S. Google AI Ultra subscribers as an experimental research prototype for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts or images. The system combines the Genie 3 world model, the Nano Banana Pro image generator, and Gemini to produce playable environments. The release aims to collect user feedback and training data to accelerate development of more capable world models. World models create internal environment representations useful for prediction and planning and are seen as important for long-term AGI while serving near-term applications in gaming, entertainment, and simulated training for embodied agents and robots. The tool is experimental and can produce both impressive and inconsistent results.
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