Google DeepMind is assembling a new team of artificial intelligence researchers to develop “world models” that can simulate physical environments. The initiative will be led by Tim Brooks, a former co-lead for OpenAI’s Sora project who joined DeepMind in October to work on Google’s video generation and world simulators.

Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks — one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind,

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

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