Google Is Forming a New Team To Build AI That Can Simulate the Physical World

Google DeepMind is forming a new team to develop AI models capable of simulating the physical world. It's being led by former OpenAI Sora co-lead Tim Brooks and builds on Google's Gemini, Veo, and Genie projects. 'DeepMind has ambitious plans to make massive generative models that simulate the world,' Brooks wrote on X. 'I'm hiring for a new team with this mission.' TechCrunch reports: According to job listings Brooks linked to in his post, the new modeling team will collaborate with and build on work from Google's Gemini, Veo, and Genie teams to tackle 'critical new problems' and scale models 'to the highest levels of compute.' Gemini is Google's flagship series of AI models for tasks like analyzing images and generating text, while Veo is Google's own video generation model. As for Genie, it's Google's take on a world model -- AI that can simulate games and 3D environments in real time. Google's latest Genie model, previewed in December, can generate a massive variety of playable 3D worlds.

'We believe scaling [AI training] on video and multimodal data is on the critical path to artificial general intelligence,' reads one of the job descriptions. Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, generally refers to AI that can accomplish any task a human can. 'World models will power numerous domains, such as visual reasoning and simulation, planning for embodied agents, and real-time interactive entertainment.' Per the description, Brooks' new team will look to develop 'real-time interactive generation' tools on top of the models they build, and study how to integrate their models with existing multimodal models such as Gemini.

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