I built marshmallow castles in Google's new AI world generator Project Genie · source

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/i-built-marshmallow-castles-in-googles-new-ai-world-generator-project-genie

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Project Genie for US Google AI Ultra subscribers; Genie 3 plus Nano Banana Pro; 60 seconds of generation and navigation per world, which DeepMind's Shlomi Fruchter attributed to bringing it to more users given compute; characters walk through walls; controls sometimes unresponsive; copyrighted worlds refused.

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7. The technique landscape, 2019 to 2026

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Chapter 7. What shipped

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ch 11

Chapter 11. What breaks

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What AI shipped

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What breaks

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The one AI technique that's normal

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Genie foundation world models

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2026-10-24

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