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DeepMind's interactive-world demonstration adds sound, character dialogue and a fire-breathing dragon to the Release Notes studio.
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Introducing Genie 4
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- 6:40The Genie 4 jazz-band demonstration generates interactive video and music together.
- 12:38A typed instruction spills the coffee and triggers dialogue with a simulated barista.
- 14:27Gemini handles reasoning, character dialogue and interactions within the generated world.
- 20:00Hadsell describes potential robotics uses, including predicting physical interactions and generating training data.
- 34:18Rivas outlines Project Genie and API availability, alongside SynthID watermarking and real-time safety steering.
- 45:13The team discusses using gaming agents to explore generated worlds and evaluate their quality.
Diego Rivas types "drop the coffee," and the simulated cup obliges. A barista responds to the spill, turning a simple first-person coffee-making scene into a demonstration of a world that can answer back.
"Introducing Genie 4" was the most-watched of Google for Developers' five uploads this week, reaching roughly 58,000 views. This is Google's own product showcase: host Logan Kilpatrick joins DeepMind's Raia Hadsell, Rivas and Hang Qi to demonstrate the model and explain how it works.
The distinction isn't just prettier pictures. Qi explains that Genie 4 predicts video and audio together, while Gemini drives the dialogue. A silent jazz-band scene from Genie 3 becomes a musical, interactive scene in Genie 4. Later, a photograph of the filming studio becomes the setting for a flying, fire-breathing dragon. Rivas also acknowledges that the model occasionally makes mistakes.
Viewers are imagining where that interaction might go: virtual-reality Skyrim, Star Trek-style holodecks and simulated environments for learning practical skills all come up in the comments.
Elsewhere, Xavier Plantaz introduces Sprout, a plant robot that searches the office for sunlight, while Jack Colley's hardware showcase follows a retro-styled Surf Clock from sketch to prototype. But the strongest viewing momentum belongs to an older upload: "Turning raw hardware sensor data into music with Gemini," featuring Matias Piña Aguilera, is adding roughly 48,000 views a day by translating movement into browser-based sound.
Subscribers were unchanged over the week, and daily viewing is currently about half its usual level. Among nearby technology channels, Google Chrome and Android Developers are both drawing above-usual daily audiences. For Google for Developers, the motion-to-music experiment remains the busiest corner of a week filled with interactive worlds and inventive hardware.
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What viewers say
This with a VR headset, with Skyrim world.
@_chappie_See it on YouTubeSo you're saying holodecks might be possible sooner than we thought.
@jackplume9045See it on YouTubeSo you can teach people how to do things via a simulated environment. Could be cool for DIY and home stuff.
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With this tech further develop for a few more years, we can eventually dream in day time
@SusanBethel-xw1cwSee it on YouTubeThis is Awesome! it's a bit scary tbh, it's giving me vibes of a matrix movie; "The beginnings".
@DI3GOskillSee it on YouTubeThe incoming games man! 🤩
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