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An example of a virtual world created by Project Genie. Credit: Google Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual worlds.

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Google DeepMind's Project Genie is a research prototype that allows users to "create, explore, and remix their own interactive worlds" based on text or image prompts. Regardless of what is used to ...

Genie 3 is a “general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environments.” Google is now letting AI Ultra subscribers in the US access it with Project Genie. A world model ...

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Google’s Genie models are able to transform user prompts into virtual 3D worlds. After developing Genie 3 last year, Google’s turned it into an interactive experiment with Project Genie. While Project ...