Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars
Summary
Ars Technica reports that Waymo is using Google DeepMind's Genie 3-based World Model to build hyper-realistic simulations for autonomous driving. The system creates 2D video and 3D lidar outputs from scenes, enabling testing of rare or dangerous scenarios and evaluating driving actions via prompts. The approach aims to expand testing across more varied environments, while highlighting challenges in realism, memory, and latency.