Imagine being able to step into a fully realized 3D world crafted from nothing more than a single image prompt. A world where every action you take—whether it’s diving into water, opening a door, or ...

World models — AI algorithms capable of generating a simulated environment in real-time — represent one of the more impressive applications of machine learning. In the last year, there’s been a lot of ...

In March, Google showed off its first Genie AI model. After training on thousands of hours of 2D run-and-jump video games, the model could generate halfway-passable interactive impressions of those ...

DeepMind, Google’s AI research org, has unveiled a model that can generate an “endless” variety of playable 3D worlds. Called Genie 2, the model — the successor to DeepMind’s Genie, which was released ...

Procedural generation is a foundational technique in modern game development. It enhances gaming experiences by introducing variety and randomness to game elements, creating more diverse and ...

AI capabilities made progress in 2024 but there was a temporary slowdown in massive compute scaling for AI training or test time compute. 2025 will see massive AI training scaling. Dr. Alan Thompson ...

Google's AI tool Genie 2 is a "large-scale foundation world model" capable of generating "an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D environments" from a single image prompt. Genie 2 can ...

This week, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley reported on a massive leap forward in artificial intelligence technology led by Google DeepMind, the company's AI research hub. Pelley took Astra, ...

Through the looking glass: The number of potential use cases for generative AI tools is growing fast. With its newly introduced model in the Genie line, Google now wants to provide "creatives" who ...

Last week, Google DeepMind announced Genie 2, a new video model that generates plausible, consistent, playable 3D environments based on a prompt image. DeepMind claims that Genie 2 has a slew of new ...