I can’t wait to see how tech like this totally upends image creation & editing as we know them. That’s just my hunch, mind you, but converting images into this kind of interactive world makes it seem almost inevitable.
This is Genie 4, our most realistic and interactive world model yet.
Explore dynamic environments in real time to see how the scene responds, sounds, and how the people in it move, react, and speak.
— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) October 27, 2026
From the official blog:
Today, we are announcing Genie 4, our new world model, which unlocks unprecedented realism and improves real-time interactive simulation. Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world.
The Genie 4 model incorporates and builds on capabilities from the Gemini family: Gemini Omni anchors the simulations in real-world appearance and behavior, while other Gemini models provide the complex reasoning needed to help maintain a simulation’s coherence and continuity.
With this foundation, you can set an event in motion, and Genie 4 simulates what happens next: how the world responds, how it sounds, and how the people in it move, react, and speak.
Understanding and simulating the world is a crucial aspect of building AGI. Genie 4 advances our ability to create safe, infinitely variable simulations that can help with everything from developing training environments for robots and agents to unlocking the creation of new interactive experiences.