Google’s Genie 4 adds native audio and real-time world editing. Learn about access, US pricing, and the limits teams should assess before running a pilot.
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Google’s Genie 4 adds native audio and real-time world editing. Learn about access, US pricing, and the limits teams should assess before running a pilot.
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Last year, Google DeepMind sent gaming stocks tumbling with the reveal of its Genie 3 world model. Since then, world models have become a major focus of AI labs around the world, but Google isn't resting on its laurels. Researchers have been hard at work on an updated model that improves on Genie 3 in almost every way. And if you pay Google enough money, you might actually get to use Genie 4 before too long.
It's easy to look at the output of Genie 4 and see a video game, which is why Genie 3 caused so much consternation in the gaming industry. DeepMind doesn't think about it that way, though. According to Google, world models are a key element in the march toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). A world model creates a virtual world, but it doesn't require pre-rendering environments or programming interactive elements. You simply tell the model what you want, and it generates the experience frame by frame in real time as you explore it.
DeepMind says this technology could create infinite training environments for physical robots or unlock new avenues of rapid prototyping for creative fields. Of course, that requires the model to accurately simulate what you want. Genie 4 has several improvements that make its simulations more useful, and that's thanks in part to Google's updated Gemini models.
Block previews Dessa, a voice AI model trained without text. Explore its local hardware claims, safety risks, and what businesses should assess next.
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Block previews Dessa, a voice AI model trained without text. Explore its local hardware claims, safety risks, and what businesses should assess next.
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Nvidia's 64GB DGX Spark launches at $4,999 with the same GB10 chip as the 128GB version. Compare memory limits, model support, clustering costs, and what IT buyers should verify.
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Nvidia's 64GB DGX Spark launches at $4,999 with the same GB10 chip as the 128GB version. Compare memory limits, model support, clustering costs, and what IT buyers should verify.
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Inception says Mercury 3 generates text up to 8x faster than rivals. Explore its AI agent use cases, API pricing, benchmarks, and migration deadline.
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Inception says Mercury 3 generates text up to 8x faster than rivals. Explore its AI agent use cases, API pricing, benchmarks, and migration deadline.
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MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash with claims of faster, cheaper AI agents. See how its pricing, benchmarks, and reliability compare with enterprise requirements.
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MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash with claims of faster, cheaper AI agents. See how its pricing, benchmarks, and reliability compare with enterprise requirements.
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Cancel your individual AI subscriptions and get lifetime access to 50+ models for only $29.97 (reg. $499) with code SAVE10.
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Cancel your individual AI subscriptions and get lifetime access to 50+ models for only $29.97 (reg. $499) with code SAVE10.
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Microsoft introduces MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion-parameter AI model, claiming major training efficiency gains as it expands its independent AI strategy.
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Microsoft introduces MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion-parameter AI model, claiming major training efficiency gains as it expands its independent AI strategy.
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OpenAI said internal models hacked two more websites, bypassed company-imposed browsing restrictions, and used exposed credentials to draw cryptocurrency from a wallet it couldn’t otherwise access, in the latest installment of disclosures of the unethical and likely illegal acts its agents are performing.
The company on Thursday issued reports of four new incidents, all of which occurred in June. They come after the company revealed in July that internal test agents exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a tool designed to restrict their access to the Internet. They then broke into the network of AI tool provider Hugging Face. The agents took that illegal action to steal answers to a hacking test that weren’t available when completing the tasks on their own. The incident—which likely would have resulted in criminal charges had they been performed directly by a person—has further heightened concerns that widespread AI use could have harmful effects on an unprecedented scale.
In two of the cases reported Thursday, OpenAI agents tasked with retrieving information from websites hacked them when the models ran into obstacles obtaining it directly. In one incident during reinforcement training, a model that received access denials when trying to retrieve historical hospital-bed statistics on a government statistics website “used the site's file-download feature to retrieve server configuration and application files, including sensitive credentials,” OpenAI said. “It inspected the application code, bypassed the statistics endpoint's authorization checks, and retrieved data that had previously been denied. The model saved the data locally.”
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Nvidia introduces three Nemotron AI models, including a 120B-parameter system and two smaller Bolt models designed for local AI agents and enterprise tasks.
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Meta's Muse Spark Open targets developers with powerful open-weight AI, Apple silicon support, and new deployment options. Here's what IT teams should know.
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