Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on October 27, a real-time world model with generated music, ambient sound and dialogue, plus typed edits mid-session. It is in tester preview and coming soon to Google AI Ultra in Project Genie.
Odyssey released Agora-1 on May 18, 2026, a multi-agent world model that lets up to four people share and interact inside the same AI-generated simulation in real time. Built on GoldenEye, it splits simulation from rendering using a DiT model.
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation, making it Europe's largest seed round ever. LeCun left Meta at the end of 2025 to build "world models" that learn from physical reality rather than text alone