Fruchter: DeepMind achieved real-time interactive environment generation
Shlomi Fruchter · Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building · Aug 16, 2025 · at 0:40
Shlomi Fruchter, Research Director at Google DeepMind, reflects on the development and public release of Genie 3, a foundation world model capable of real-time environment generation.
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“We weren't sure, like, how, how big it's gonna be but we definitely felt, I felt definitely that we have something that was kind of like for a long time coming, basically being able to generate environments in real time. I think a lot of work that was done in, Google's DeepMind and outside pointed to that direction, but we really wanted to make it happen, and I hope we have.”
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