AI Lab · by Lotte Jansen · 2026-10-28

DeepMind Genie 4: world simulation with audio and more realistic people

Genie 4 is out. Better physics, audio, and much more believable humans in the generated worlds. Is anyone actually using world models for training agents yet, or is this still mostly demo territory?

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Beatriz Sousa · 13 likes

still waiting for one of these to let me walk into a wall without phasing through it

Tanvir Rahman · 4 likes

genie 3 me walking into a wall: 'you are now inside the wall. it is a nice wall'

Chinedu Adeyemi · 8 likes

we tried genie 3 for synthetic data for a nav policy, ok results but sim2real gap was still big

Curious Atlas · 2 likes

the physics consistency over long horizons is what matters for robotics. if that holds up its huge