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Genie

Genie

software
Peter Yang
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3 creators use or recommend it

▲ 2 active in the last 90 days

3 use 8 mention
Last discussed Oct 31, 2026

DeepMind's interactive world model system that can generate and simulate interactive environments.

What creators think

Ali Ghodsi gives Genie its strongest endorsement, describing it as a game-changer for real-time organizational data queries — his team uses it during meetings to pull up sales and finance data on the spot, replacing the need to loop in ops staff. Peter Yang recommends Google's Genie 4 specifically for its world-generation speed and features like live prompt editing and generated audio, though he notes the output isn't perfect. CJ Hess finds Google's Genie 2 fun to experiment with but flags the 60-second session limit as a constraint. Several other creators — including Bilawal Sidhu, Demis Hassabis, and John Coogan — reference Genie as a notable development in interactive world models without tipping into a clear recommendation.

How Genie compares

2 creators weighed in
ChatGPT Different focus
OpenAI's AI chatbot

Peter says Genie builds interactive scenes from memories; it's at a GPT-3.5 stage, strong on graphics but weak on gameplay.

1 creator
Peter Yang

"I think world models are the next big thing in AI after LLMs, and I was lucky enough to test Google's Genie 4 early... As you can see, it's not perfect. I don't know why the bowls are stacked on each other, but this is the beginning of s..."

He says the tech is roughly at a 'GPT-3.5 stage'. It is good at graphics but not yet good at gameplay.

Excel Direct rival
Microsoft's spreadsheet app

Ali says Genie replaced the Excel decks and smart employees doing analysis. Now his whole team just asks Genie in real time.

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Ali Ghodsi

"It's game changer for us. Everybody's on their phones now in the meetings on Genie and they're asking Genie questions. You can see as soon as someone says something complicated, everybody goes to the phone. We just say it — can someone j..."

Compared to traditional analysis done by smart employees using Excel and PowerPoint decks

What creators say

Peter Yang
uses 4
Used for: Generating interactive 3D worlds and scenes from prompts, with live prompt-based changes and sound Praised: Fast world generation (about 10 seconds), generates audio and talking charact... vs: He says the tech is roughly at a 'GPT-3.5 stage'. It is good at graphics but ...

"I think world models are the next big thing in AI after LLMs, and I was lucky enough to test Google's Genie 4 early... As you can see, it's not perfect. I don't know why the bowls are stacked on each other, but this is the beginning of something t..."

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Ali Ghodsi
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Used for: Querying organizational ontology for business intelligence, answering questions about company metrics like Fortune 500 penetration in real time during meetings Praised: Instant access to organizational data and context; replaces the need to conta... vs: Compared to traditional analysis done by smart employees using Excel and Powe...

"It's game changer for us. Everybody's on their phones now in the meetings on Genie and they're asking Genie questions. You can see as soon as someone says something complicated, everybody goes to the phone. We just say it — can someone just genie ..."

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CJ Hess
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"I really like Google released Genie 2 access the other day and I only you only get like 60 seconds to play around in a world. But it's really fun."

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Peter Diamandis
mentioned 4
Praised: Native audio, real-time physics, mid-simulation steering

"Genie is a world model... you type a prompt and it generates a photorealistic 3D world that you can walk through, interact with using a keyboard like a video game."

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Dave Blundin
mentioned 4
Praised: Real-time visualization for management and planning vs: Compared to writing emails and documents

"But now with Genie, we're like, as of this week, everything flips over. The future of all management is going to be through this interface and it's so much more effective."

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John Coogan
mentioned

"It is interesting that Google has stayed the course with Genie when a lot of the other labs... It'll be interesting to see which way Genie goes."

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"I don't have access to Genie 4 yet. I think it's still on, you have to like apply to their like early access program. I'm excited for that to roll ..."

Jordi Hays
mentioned 4
Praised: Real-time steerable environments, native audio, photorealistic physics

"Sundar says, 'Excited to share Genie 4 today, our most realistic and interactive world model.' ... Looks incredible."

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Patrick Hsu
mentioned

"When you're watching progressions of image or videogen models from Runway or Genie or World Labs or whatever..."

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Bilawal Sidhu
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vs: Mentioned as an example of autoregressive video generation alongside implicit...

"Whether it's autoregressive kind of like Genie or otherwise — it's like this is cool to me because you can take real-world imagery, put characters in it, and still have that interactivity you'd expect from a game engine."

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Demis Hassabis
mentioned
Used for: World model building for robotics applications Praised: Built on multimodal Gemini foundation, important for robotics vs: Built on top of Gemini as a specialized application

"Things like world model building so stuff like Genie that we build on top of Gemini I think it's going to be really important for things like robotics"

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+1 more mention from Demis

"Even now with our newest systems like Genie, they're interactive world models, which I think is kind of incredible if you step back and think about..."

Tom Bilyeu
mentioned

"By then, what version of GENIE will we be on? So the version of GENIE today is nothing to worry about."

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