Google Is Building Its Own ‘world Modeling’ Ai Team For Games And Robot Training

Google DeepMind is assembling a caller squad of artificial intelligence researchers to create “world models” that tin simulate beingness environments. The inaugural will beryllium led by Tim Brooks, a erstwhile co-lead for OpenAI’s Sora task who joined DeepMind successful October to activity connected Google’s video procreation and world simulators.

World models are a comparatively caller betterment incorrect AI that could work a assortment of purposes, specified arsenic creating real-time interactive media environments for video games and movies, and realistic training scenarios for robots and different AI systems. It’s too information of Google’s push to execute an artificial wide intelligence system, aliases AGI, earlier its competitors.

“DeepMind has eager plans to make monolithic generative models that simulate nan world,” Brooks announced successful an X position connected Monday. Brooks included 2 unfastened business listings for investigation engineers and scientists who will thief to beforehand AI “world models” tin of simulating real-world scenarios by solving problems astir training “at monolithic scale,” curating training data, and studying really they tin beryllium integrated pinch multimodal relationship models.

“We judge scaling pretraining connected video and multimodal accusation is connected nan captious measurement to artificial wide intelligence,” DeepMind said successful nan business descriptions. “World models will powerfulness galore domains, specified arsenic ocular reasoning and simulation, readying for embodied agents, and real-time interactive entertainment.”

The title to beryllium nan first to authorities AGI is heating up, truthful Google’s attraction coming isn’t surprising. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman precocious said that nan institution has cracked really to execute nan tech industry’s long-sought benchmark, and that autonomous AI agents whitethorn commencement to meaningfully subordinate workforces this year.

There are respective competitors who already personification a caput commencement complete DeepMind’s world modeling project, including Nvidia’s Cosmos level for advancing beingness AI, autonomous vehicle, and robot development; and nan World Labs startup created by “the godmother of AI,” Fei-Fei Li.

The caller DeepMind squad will activity alongside existing Google AI projects including its flagship Gemini AI models, Veo video generator, and Genie — Google’s anterior world exemplary for simulating playable 3D environments successful real-time.