Google DeepMind is expanding Project Genie access to Google AI Ultra subscribers worldwide, adding a Street View integration that lets the model simulate real-world physical environments.
The Street View capability is the detail worth reading for. It means Genie is no longer generating purely synthetic or abstract game-like spaces. It is ingesting actual georeferenced visual data to construct navigable, interactive environments, which moves the goalposts on what world models can be grounded in.
The full post covers the technical specifics of how Street View data feeds the simulation pipeline and what the global Ultra rollout means for access parity. Read it to understand the gap between this and prior Genie demos.
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