Real-world models are here! Stoked to share how we're bringing real-world locations to life by integrating Street View into Genie. Try it now at labs.google/fx/projectgenie and read the blog for more info: blog.google/innovation-and-a…

Exciting news: Gemini Omni Flash is now #1 in the Video Arena (both Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video)! For Text-to-Video this is a massive 158 pt improvement over Veo 3.1 (1080p) and a large 61 pt lead over the next best model, Seedance 2.0. Congrats @GoogleDeepMind for this huge milestone!

🌍 Project Genie access is expanding even more! Starting today, Google AI Ultra 5X subscribers (our latest tier!) globally can access Project Genie. Try it out here! labs.google/projectgenie

Diffusion Circle happening today @CVPR #CVPR2026 Upper Lobby F at 3:30pm, come join us!

Ideogram 4.0 has four key components: (1) a frozen Qwen3-VL-8B text encoder (2) a 34-layer single-stream DiT (3) a flow-matching Euler sampler with asymmetric CFG (4) a frozen FLUX.2 VAE We thank the open-source community and give back by releasing this with open weights.

Try out our image to video feature in Gemini Omni Flash! Interested to see what people are able to do.

Diffusion Circle with forest vibes! 🌲 Since the original Diffusion Circle organizer @sedielem cannot make it to CVPR in person this year, we coordinated with him and are happy to host the Diffusion Circle this time. Stop by if you are interested in flow maps, multimodal diffusion models, variational flow matching, action prediction, and all the other hot denoising stuff. @sumith1896 and @dustin_podell will coordinate. Meeting point: Upper Lobby F / Exhibit Hall F Entrance; see attached pics. Happening Saturday, June 6, 3:30pm!

The PSI blog will be a good place to look for world model updates: neuroailab.github.io/psi-web…

For the past years my research focus was on unifying models and training paradigms across modalities. Today I'm excited that we're releasing our latest model aligned with this theme: Gemma 4 12B, a dense encoder-free model which processes raw text, image, and audio inputs! 1/

A world model that updates and renders a dynamic world state. This is the way.

Introducing Project Eden, a world model research preview from @VASTAIResearch Project Eden is a persistent, multiplayer world model that fundamentally breaks from existing paradigms by decoupling the underlying world state from visual rendering. Instead of treating the world as a sequence of transient frames, Eden treats it as a structured, evolving environment that runs continuously, can be modified by user actions, and can be consistently observed from any viewpoint.

Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF. Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!

We wanted to see if we could take simple, physical materials (like cardboard and markers) and use AI to bring them to life. What was the result? A short film starring a bunch of TPUs getting ready for the big stage at Google I/O 2026! Working with director Laurie Rowan and Nexus Studios, we kept human artistry at the center of the film by blending puppetry and 3D animation with our models to do the following ↓ Nano Banana: Generated beautifully stylized first frames from the raw puppet footage and basic 3D animations. @GoogleAIStudio: Built a custom tool inside the platform to test these frames at scale, ensuring pixel-perfect consistency Gemini Omni & experimental @GoogleDeepMind Models: Merged the base animation and stylized frames to elevate the final piece to a cinematic level. Our AI pipelines were specifically designed to protect the crafty details that give these films their heart, like the tiny human imperfections of puppetry, or the nuance an animator can build into an expression.

Project Genie 🤝 @GoogleMaps Street View You can now take real U.S. places and transform them into new, interactive worlds. 🌍

Imagine driving down one of the most picturesque highways on the Pacific Coast (Highway 1) in a race car… now I can use Project Genie, connected with Street View, to bring that to life in vivid detail! At #GoogleIO, we announced that we’re bringing Google Street View into Project Genie, so you can create and explore imaginative, interactive worlds anchored in real places. Available to eligible Google AI Ultra Subscribers globally. Great collab from @jmbherbert, @jparkerholder, @poolio, @drivascos many others from @GoogleDeepMind and @GoogleLabs.

Google just turned Street View into a video game. The mother lode of ground level data -- 280 billion real world panoramas, now playable in real time. Here's everything you need to know in 7 mins: 00:00 Genie 3 Grounded In Reality 00:44 Real-time Demos! 03:48 The Bigger Picture 05:36 Current Limitations 06:54 World Model Resources

Project Genie is now available to all Google AI Ultra subscribers globally! Take it for a spin and try real worlds grounded in Street View or imagined worlds with ungrounded cats: labs.google/fx/projectgenie/…

We love seeing all of the worlds you’ve been creating with Genie. SO much so, that we’re excited to announce Project Genie is now fully available to all Google AI Ultra subscribers globally (18 ).

Excited to share what we are building -- Genie experience grounded in real-world street view. Try it out at labs.google/fx/projectgenie

Have you explored Project Genie yet? 🌎 We just launched a huge set of updates! You can now simulate worlds grounded in @GoogleMaps Street View, manage your creations in a new library, and share them externally. Let's dive in: 1️⃣ Street View Grounding: You can now generate worlds starting from real places! Just tap the Maps pin to choose a location in the US and you can pick a style like "Desert Sands" or "Ocean World." Describe your character, and Genie ties your starting location to real-world imagery. 2️⃣ Library: You can now store and organize your generated worlds. Easily explore past creations or remix your favorites to iterate on your ideas. 3️⃣ External sharing: You can now share your generated worlds. Anyone can watch a video preview of your world, and Ultra subscribers can explore or remix them. Check out a shared world here: goo.gle/42j85pj ✨ And now, Project Genie is gradually rolling out to all eligible Google AI Ultra subscribers globally (18 ). Jump in and start creating today!

The likeness preservation and natural realism coming out of Gemini #Omni Flash is absolutely unreal 🤯 Huge shoutout to the insanely talented team for pushing these boundaries. The team absolutely cooked. 👨‍🍳🔥 If Flash is this good... imagine what Pro is about to unleash. 👀✨