Google introduces foundation world model Genie 2 to create playable 3D environments

Google DeepMind introduced an AI model capable of creating 3D worlds that are “playable,” based on one prompt image, with potential applications in gaming and further AI product testing. Called a foundation world model, Genie 2 can generate an “endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D environments for training and evaluating embodied agents,” said Google DeepMind. Google DeepMind noted that Genie 2 could generate “consistent” worlds for up to 60 seconds, while it showed examples lasting 10-20 seconds. It was trained on a large-scale video dataset and, like other generative models, demonstrates various emergent capabilities at scale, such as object interactions, complex character animation, physics, and the ability to model and thus predict the behavior of other agents,” said Google DeepMind in a post.