Google is establishing a team to build AI that can simulate the physical world, led by one of the former co-leads on OpenAI's Sora model.

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 dedicated to developing artificial intelligence models capable of simulating the physical world. The team will be led by Tim Brooks, a former co-lead on OpenAI’s video generation model,