<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="color:initial;font-size:small">The announcement from Waymo below is going to make Waymo vehicles even smarter.</span></div><br>Waymo recently published a blog post detailing their use of Genie 3, a generative world model developed by Google DeepMind. The post, titled &quot;The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier For Autonomous Driving Simulation,&quot; explains how they utilize Genie to create hyper-realistic, interactive 3D environments to train the Waymo Driver on rare and &quot;long-tail&quot; scenarios.<br><br><a href="https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation">https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span><br></div>