Google’s next Genie AI model generates more realistic experiences

Google announced Genie 4, a world model for generating interactive experiences, with four main updates: more realistic worlds, real-time updates via natural language prompts, audio generation, and Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood. It can create experiences about two minutes long, up from one minute for Genie 3, and Google pitches it for uses like filmmaker pre-visualization, game prototyping, and robot training scenarios, while warning that details and object permanence can shift over longer simulations. Genie 4 is launching first as a research preview to trusted testers, will be "coming soon" to Google AI Ultra subscribers, and Google has opened a waitlist to try it in Project Genie.