World Model
AI systems that can simulate aspects of the world - Genie 3 generates interactive environments navigable in real time from a text prompt.
Plain English
A model that generates a place you can move around in, not just a picture of one.
Example
A robot-learning team generates thousands of simulated kitchen variants with Genie 3 and trains a manipulation policy inside them instead of teleoperating real robots for months.
Why it matters
World models are the training substrate of the physical-AI wave: simulated experience is becoming the training data, and 24 fps interactive generation makes it usable live.