Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View
May 19, 2026
We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.
Diego Rivas
Product Manager, Google DeepMind
Jonathan Herbert
Principal Product Manager, Maps
Nicole Segaran
Associate Product Manager, Google Labs
Genie is our general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environments. Since launching, Genie has become a foundational tool for research, enabling agents to learn and reason in complex virtual settings and even helping Waymo simulate hyper-realistic road environments.
Now, we’re taking a leap forward by connecting Genie’s generative power with the real-world imagery of Google Street View, allowing our models to anchor themselves in reality. This expansion of Genie’s capabilities can provide a virtual environment for AI agents or robots to navigate and interact with the complexities of the real world.
Today, we’re launching this new Street View grounding capability within Project Genie, our experimental prototype....
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