Google is also investing in video games and AI in another way: creating playable virtual worlds on the fly from a prompt image using a “foundation world model” called Genie 2 that it showed off last week. That work seems early, too: Genie 2 can only generate consistent worlds for “up to a minute,” Google says.

CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post dubbed the moment as the start of a "new agentic era," referring to virtual assistants that can perform tasks with greater autonomy.

Unlike traditional AI chatbots that rely solely on training data, AI agents store past interactions in memory and use this up-to-date information to plan future actions