Google DeepMind introduced Genie 4 on Tuesday , a world model that renders interactive environments in real time with simulated physics, human motion, and native audio. The photorealistic demos are seriously impressive, but arguably the real draw for anyone building AI agents is that Genie 4 gives them somewhere to run multi-step tasks before it counts. Tejas Kulkarni , a research director at Google DeepMind, describes the approach at a press briefing as a move toward “these hybrid world models,” with Gemini writing the code and text and Genie turning it into a running scene. It gives...

Source: The New Stack