GoKawiilGoogle DeepMind launches Genie 4 world model with audio and live scene editing
Google DeepMind released Genie 4 in research preview, a world model that generates photorealistic, interactive simulated environments with synchronized audio including music, ambient sound, and dialogue. Users can edit scenes mid-simulation, such as changing weather or camera angles, and the model can maintain a consistent scene for up to two minutes, twice as long as its predecessor Genie 3. Gemini now acts as a planning layer that directs Genie 4's visual generation, including an experiment where it broke down robotics tasks for real-time simulation.