DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans

Google DeepMind has revealed Genie 4, an updated world model that improves on Genie 3 in almost every way, with more realistic physics and humans, and which paying Google customers may be able to use before too long. DeepMind frames world models as a key element toward AGI: they generate a virtual world frame by frame in real time as you explore it, without pre-rendered environments or programmed interactive elements, and could create infinite training environments for physical robots or enable rapid prototyping. The improvements are due in part to Google's updated Gemini models.