Overview
- Google’s DeepMind rolled out Project Genie to U.S. Google AI Ultra subscribers, generating explorable 3D environments from text or image prompts in real time.
- Sessions are capped at roughly 60 seconds at 720p/24fps with noticeable input lag and minimal controls, lacking NPCs, objectives, or persistent memory.
- After steep drops Friday — including double-digit declines for Unity, Roblox and Take-Two — shares recovered some losses Monday as analysts labeled the reaction premature.
- Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg called world-model outputs probabilistic and “unsuitable on their own” for deterministic games, positioning engines to ingest and refine such content; Epic’s Tim Sweeney projected eventual convergence of models and engines.
- Early prompts produced worlds resembling well-known franchises, and Google says it is monitoring use and applying warnings or blocks tied to third-party IP.