{"id":217126,"date":"2025-07-03T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/could-googles-veo-3-be-the-start-of-playable-world-models"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:13:12","slug":"could-googles-veo-3-be-the-start-of-playable-world-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/could-googles-veo-3-be-the-start-of-playable-world-models","title":{"rendered":"Could Google\u2019s Veo 3 be the start of playable world models?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmECe8LlQik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google\u2019s AI research organization DeepMind, appeared to suggest Tuesday evening that Veo 3, Google\u2019s latest video-generating model, could potentially be used for video games.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a post on X beseeching Google to \u201cLet me play a video game of my veo 3 videos already,\u201d and asking, \u201cplayable world models wen?\u201d Hassabis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demishassabis\/status\/1940248521111961988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">responded<\/a>, \u201cnow wouldn\u2019t that be something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, Logan Kilpatrick, lead product for Google\u2019s AI Studio and Gemini API, chimed in with a reply: \u201c\ud83e\udd10\ud83e\udd10\ud83e\udd10\ud83e\udd10\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google\u2019s AI research organization DeepMind, appeared to suggest Tuesday evening that Veo 3, Google\u2019s latest video-generating model, could potentially be used for video games. In response to a post on X beseeching Google to \u201cLet me play a video game of my veo 3 videos already,\u201d and asking, \u201cplayable world models [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}