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Google's DeepMind Forms GenWorld Team Led by Tim Brooks to Advance Toward AGI

Jan 8, 2025, 07:37 PM

Google is forming a new team at its DeepMind AI research lab to develop artificial intelligence models capable of simulating the physical world, with a focus on creating GenWorld, a new era following GenAI. The team, led by Tim Brooks, who previously worked on OpenAI's Sora video generation model, aims to create massive generative models that can simulate the world, potentially advancing toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). The initiative will involve developing 3D simulations for applications in robotics and other fields. The team will collaborate with experts from Google's Gemini, Veo, and Genie projects to tackle new challenges and scale AI models to high levels of computational power. The focus will be on developing real-time interactive generation tools and integrating these models with existing multimodal models like Gemini. This move positions Google to compete with other entities in the world modeling space, such as World Labs, Odyssey, and Decart.