Google is forming a new team to create artificial worlds for gaming and robot learning
Google DeepMind has announced a new team of researchers to develop artificial intelligence models that can simulate the physical environment.
Here's What We Know
The initiative will be led by Tim Brooks, former co-director of OpenAI's Sora project, who joined DeepMind in October. The world models will be used to create real-time interactive media environments for video games and films, as well as for training robots and other artificial intelligence systems. It's part of Google's drive to build a general artificial intelligence (AGI) system ahead of its competitors.
DeepMind has ambitious plans to make massive generative models that simulate the world. I'm hiring for a new team with this mission. Come build with us! https://t.co/pqvALtAvLs https://t.co/vtwgeXl9Dl
- Tim Brooks (@_tim_brooks) January 6, 2025
The new team will work alongside existing Google AI projects such as Gemini AI, the Veo video generator, and the previous Genie world model. The world models will be used in a variety of areas such as visual thinking, simulation, embodied agent planning and real-time interactive entertainment.
Google aims to build scalable models that can address the challenges of learning at massive scale and integration with multimodal language models.
Source: @_tim_brooks, theverge
