Google's Genie 4 debuts: real-time playable world model with native audio and live prompt edits
_philschmid · x · 2026-10-28
Genie 4 is out: a real-time multimodal world model that renders playable environments frame by frame in response to keyboard controls and text prompts. New in this version: native audio, characters that move and talk, sharper physics, and live prompt editing. Waitlist is open, with Google AI Ultra subscribers getting first access.
Related event: DeepMind Unveils Genie 4, Its Most Realistic Interactive World Model(29 posts)→
More from Models
- OpenBMB open-sources MiniCPM OCR family: 1.3B model tops open-source OCR benchmarks, 2B evaluator hits 0.936 AUROC — AdinaYakup · 2026-10-28
- Users report Grok Bot latency dropped sharply, with noticeably snappier responses — mark_k · 2026-10-28
- Cognition's FrontierCode 2: Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra lead; Chinese OSS models lag at 17% — scaling01 · 2026-10-28
- Statistically Lossless Qwen3.8 27B GGUF Quants Hit ~99% EAR at 23GB, Feels FP8-like — Dany0 · 2026-10-28
- mark_k pans rumored OpenAI Terra and Astra models, calls for a stronger Sol tier — mark_k · 2026-10-28
- Kimi K3.1 teased to adopt DSA like DeepSeek V3.2 for better inference economics — zephyr_z9 · 2026-10-28