Research Scientist at DeepMind
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Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Huge congratulations to the Project Genie team on taking home the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for AI Craft! 🎉 Thank you @Cannes_Lions for recognizing how Genie pushes beyond conventional creative limitations to achieve outcomes unattainable without frontier AI… Another unexpected consequence of scaling world models :)
Try it yourself here: labs.google/projectgenie
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Project Genie 🤝 @GoogleMaps Street View
You can now take real U.S. places and transform them into new, interactive worlds. 🌍
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Project Genie is magical... but we've also been working on some new ways to interact with another player (or agent).
It was super fun to demo this new capability at Google I/O this week, where we enabled attendees to explore worlds with Gemini as a companion. Going forward, we are incredibly excited to see how this can enable Gemini to learn how to interact with humans in embodied environments.
Some examples of interacting with Gemini in real-time within these generated worlds:
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Have you explored Project Genie yet? 🌎 We just launched a huge set of updates! You can now simulate worlds grounded in @GoogleMaps Street View, manage your creations in a new library, and share them externally. Let's dive in:
1️⃣ Street View Grounding: You can now generate worlds starting from real places! Just tap the Maps pin to choose a location in the US and you can pick a style like "Desert Sands" or "Ocean World." Describe your character, and Genie ties your starting location to real-world imagery.
2️⃣ Library: You can now store and organize your generated worlds. Easily explore past creations or remix your favorites to iterate on your ideas.
3️⃣ External sharing: You can now share your generated worlds. Anyone can watch a video preview of your world, and Ultra subscribers can explore or remix them. Check out a shared world here: goo.gle/42j85pj
✨ And now, Project Genie is gradually rolling out to all eligible Google AI Ultra subscribers globally (18+). Jump in and start creating today!
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
🚀🚀 Today, we are starting to roll out Project Genie to Ultra users globally, and bringing the power of Street View to ground your generations. You can read more about it here: blog.google/innovation-and-a…
Real-world models are here! Stoked to share how we're bringing real-world locations to life by integrating Street View into Genie. Try it now at labs.google/fx/projectgenie and read the blog for more info:
blog.google/innovation-and-a…
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Real-world models are here! Stoked to share how we're bringing real-world locations to life by integrating Street View into Genie. Try it now at labs.google/fx/projectgenie and read the blog for more info:
blog.google/innovation-and-a…
come and help us push the frontier of world models and build the foundations of embodied AI
🚨 My team at GDM are hiring :) we are looking for people interested in scaling world models, adding new capabilities and using them to solve embodied AGI.
We are looking for people who go above and beyond, put the team first, and believe in our long term mission. Sounds like you? Please apply!!
We have roles in both London and NYC, and hiring for RS and RE. In practice, there's very little difference here as we all get very hands on ;)
Watching this develop has been incredibly motivating for us working on Genie - massive congrats to Waymo for making this dream use case for world models a reality!
We’re excited to introduce the Waymo World Model—a frontier generative mode for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation built on @GoogleDeepMind’s Genie 3.
By simulating the “impossible”, we proactively prepare the Waymo Driver for some of the most rare and complex scenarios—from tornadoes to planes landing on freeways—long before it encounters them in the real world.
waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-w…
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Genie 3 🤝 @Waymo
The Waymo World Model generates photorealistic, interactive environments to train autonomous vehicles.
This helps the cars navigate rare, unpredictable events before encountering them in reality. 🧵
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Thrilled to launch Project Genie, an experimental prototype of the world's most advanced world model. Create entire playable worlds to explore in real-time just from a simple text prompt - kind of mindblowing really! Available to Ultra subs in the US for now - have fun exploring!
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
SIMA 2 🤝 Genie 3
We tested SIMA 2’s abilities in simulated 3D worlds created by our world model Genie 3.
It demonstrated unprecedented adaptability by navigating its surroundings and took meaningful steps toward goals.
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Are you interested in how world models like Genie 3 can help embodied AI agents and vice versa? 🌐🤖
I’m hiring a Student Researcher at @GoogleDeepMind in Toronto for a 6-month role to explore this question!
Apply here:
forms.gle/VZeBQ5SDn6Hj2UbL9
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Excited to build models that simulate the world? 🌐🌐🌐 Our team is hiring!! See posts below for Research Scientists and Engineers. The roles are somewhat fluid, but rule of thumb is the RS typically require a PhD. Preference for London or Toronto. Apply here: 👇👇
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Promptable world events weren't the most splashy part of Genie 3, presumably because it's similar to something normal video models kind of do. Nevertheless, it's satisfying to be exploring an environment and be able to make something interesting happen when you want.
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Simulations are the future, & one of the main tools we’ll ultimately use to understand and predict things about the universe. This is why I’m so excited about Genie 3, our latest interactive world simulator - here are some insanely cool things you might have missed about it 🧵:
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
Why make explorable, AI generated worlds?
@ShlomiFruchter and @JParkerHolder explain how creating diverse and challenging virtual environments can help test and train AI agents safely. 🦺
Watch their conversation about Genie 3 with podcast host, @fryrsquared ↓
Timecodes:
00:00 Coming up
00:54 Intro
02:00 What is Genie 3?
03:00 Demos
06:50 Physics
11:00 Possible scenarios
15:07 Emergent properties
20:35 Veo and Genie
25:00 Hunter's lodge
28:02 Memory
34:52 SIMA and Genie 3
39:13 Searching for interestingness
52:00 AGI and the future
59:23 Hannah's thoughts
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕥 🪐🌉🌃
The pixel art demo is by far the coolest imo. We can do photorealism already. But this demonstrates something that NO other technology can do.
I would love if you could try with a 1970s gouache watercolor concept painting style. I've always wanted to see what it would look like in motion.
(midjourney prompt in the alt text)
ALT a science fiction first-person game in the style of a 1970s gouache concept art painting. The player holds a scanner device in the foreground, emerging on a path leading out from a dense, shadowed forest. Ahead lies a breathtaking vista: a lush forested valley in the moonlight. Scattered rocky outcrops, and beautiful solar punk towers rise above the canopy. A desert can be seen on the left. Massive trees on the right. In the far distance, towering cliffs rise into the clouds, crowned by a dark, ominous space station surrounded by swirling clouds. The sky is richly atmospheric, covered in bright stars and purple and green nebulae with two large, bright moons. The image is saturated and pops with colors.
Christos Kaplanis retweeted
This is what it looks like in Genie 3.
It is 2025. You type the world you want. The rain comes. The lights burn. A train glides away, straight and cold. People stand close. They wait and do not speak. Above them fish turn slow and bright.
You type more. The city answers. It gives you color and noise and steam. It gives you the long street and the wet neon. It gives you the old hunger too. You feel it in the crowd. You feel it in the rail as it hums past.
You try again. You ask for quiet. The rain softens. The crowd breathes. The koi slow and dim. It is almost right.
It's Genie 3.