Google is building its own 'world modeling' AI team for games and robot training

Image: The Verge Google DeepMind is assembling a new team of artificial intelligence researchers to develop "world models" that can simulate physical environments. The initiative will be led by Tim Brooks, a former co-lead for OpenAI's Sora project who joined DeepMind in October to work on Google's video generation and world simulators. World models are a relatively new development within AI that could serve a variety of purposes, such as creating real-time interactive media environments for vid...