Google Gemini 2 comes with an AI agent that can browse the web for me, Project Mariner, but I already have privacy questions about it.

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.

Google says its new generation of AI models can understand more of the world and take action on your behalf.