Genie 4 is Google DeepMind’s new real-time world model for creators, game developers and AI researchers. Unlike video generators that hand you a finished clip, Genie 4 builds a world you walk through with your keyboard and steer with text as it runs: change the weather, add a character, set an event in motion. It generates native audio and live dialogue, simulates physics and natural human motion, and uses Gemini to keep scenes coherent. Research preview, waitlist open now.
Hi PH! Meet Genie 4 is a new world model, which unlocks unprecedented realism and improves real-time interactive simulation. Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world. Check out the video, this is the one where I turned the sound on and actually said “wait, what” out loud!
Genie 4 doesn’t make a video. It makes a world you walk around in, and you can change it while you’re in it. Type “make it rain” and it rains. Add a person and they talk back.
The physics jump from Genie 3 is real. So is the audio, which they generate natively rather than adding later.
It’s a research preview, so expect some drift in long sessions. Still, filmmakers and game devs, this one’s for you.
Hi! Cay, you start from your own image, like a photo of a real place, and walk into it?
Congrats on the launch! Not a game dev, but even as just a person who likes games, this looks incredible
Quick Question, say I am am and advertising studio,and I represent a brand. Can I generate base assets for them that they can later post in social media? as in will it preserve the logo and branding? Can I create a world, where we can highlight the product as would have done with a real actors and cameras? Say we have existing videos can we condition on those to extend beyond or in negative time to highlight something that was missed in the real cut?
About Genie 4 on Product Hunt
“Turn a prompt into a living world you can steer”
Genie 4 launched on Product Hunt on October 28th, 2026 and earned 100 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Genie 4 is Google DeepMind’s new real-time world model for creators, game developers and AI researchers. Unlike video generators that hand you a finished clip, Genie 4 builds a world you walk through with your keyboard and steer with text as it runs: change the weather, add a character, set an event in motion. It generates native audio and live dialogue, simulates physics and natural human motion, and uses Gemini to keep scenes coherent. Research preview, waitlist open now.
Genie 4 was featured in Artificial Intelligence (482.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 132.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Genie 4?
Genie 4 was hunted by Kate Ramakaieva. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Kate Ramakaieva
Hi PH! Meet Genie 4 is a new world model, which unlocks unprecedented realism and improves real-time interactive simulation. Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world. Check out the video, this is the one where I turned the sound on and actually said “wait, what” out loud!
Genie 4 doesn’t make a video. It makes a world you walk around in, and you can change it while you’re in it. Type “make it rain” and it rains. Add a person and they talk back.
The physics jump from Genie 3 is real. So is the audio, which they generate natively rather than adding later.
It’s a research preview, so expect some drift in long sessions. Still, filmmakers and game devs, this one’s for you.
Check out the details here https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/