Genie, Turning Images Into Playable Worlds

New Day, New Modality

Ignacio de Gregorio
8 min readMar 7, 2024

Amid its current controversies, Google continues to innovate in other areas of Generative AI.

Now, it has created an entirely new type of model, named Genie, the first-ever model to create action-controllable environments, aka turning still images into playable games.

But it can be much more, as due to its innovative training approach, it has been framed as a potentially viable path to generalist agents, the milestone all AI labs in the world are desperately trying to achieve.

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Ignacio de Gregorio

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