As it looks to accelerate the pace of its AI development, Google is streamlining the teams building its AI services, platforms, and tools.

This comes after the Gemini chatbot team was moved to DeepMind last year. In October 2024, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had said to his employees in a memo, "To maintain the momentum of progress, we've been streamlining our structures,

DeepMind’s Genie puts the company at the forefront of world model development, but it faces a number of competitors in this area, such as World Labs Technologies Inc ., a startup created by the renowned AI researcher Fei-Fei Lee, as well Odyssey Systems Inc. and Decart.AI Inc.

Google is forming a new team to build AI models capable of accurately simulating the physical world. The effort will be led by Tim Brooks, a former co-lead on OpenAI's video generator, Sora. Brooks joined Google's AI research lab,

AGI is the overarching goal, but improved chatbots, AI-generated media, and potentially robots are also a part of the equation.

Google DeepMind is recruiting a new team of artificial intelligence researchers to develop models that "simulate the physical world".