Google DeepMind Sets Sights on World Modeling AI for Gaming and Robotics

Hamid Siddiqui / January 7, 2025 1:20pm News

Google's DeepMind is creating a new AI team to develop world models that simulate physical environments, led by Tim Brooks. This initiative aims to enhance video games, robotics training, and advance artificial general intelligence (AGI). The team is seeking researchers to scale pretraining on multimodal data. Competitors like Nvidia and OpenAI are already ahead in this race. DeepMind's efforts will integrate with its existing AI projects, propelling innovation.

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