Waymo Leverages Genie 3 to Create a World Model for Self-Driving Cars

Summary

Waymo introduced the Waymo World Model on February 6, 2026, a frontier generative model for autonomous driving simulation built on top of Google DeepMind's Genie 3. The model enables Waymo to create hyper-realistic simulated driving environments — including rare edge cases like snow on the Golden Gate Bridge, tornadoes, and flooded suburban roads — that would be impossible or impractical to collect from real-world driving data alone. Waymo reports the company's AI has now driven nearly 200 milli