Acknowledgment
This study was developed by the SIMA 2 team: Maria Abi Raad, John Agapiou, Frederic Besse, Andrew Bolt, Sarah Chakera, Harris Chan, Jeff Clune, Alexandra Cordell, Martin Engelcke, Ryan Faulkner, Maxime Gazeau, Arne Olav Hallingstad, Tim Harley, Ed Hirst, Drew Hudson, Laura Kampis, Sheleem Kashem, Thomas Keck, Matija Kekman, Oscar Knagg, Alexander Lerchner, Bonnie Li, Yulan Liu, Gong Lu, Maria Locks-Thompson, Joseph Marino, Kay McKinney, Piemaria Mendricchio, Anna Mitenkova, Aleksandr Mfarek, Fabio Pardo, Olly Purkis, David. – Reichert, John Reed, Tyson Roberts, Daniel P. Sawyer, Tim Sholtes, Daniel Slater, Hubert Sawyer, Kaustubh Sridhar, Peter Stith, Taifun Terzi, Davide Vercelli, Bojan Vujatovic, Jane X. Wang, Ruyu Wang, Duncan Williams, Ray M. Zhang.
We would like to thank Satinder Singh Baveja, Adrian Bolton, Zoubin Ghahramani, Raia Hadsell, Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Volodymyr Mnih, and Daan Wierstra for their leadership, guidance, and support.
Many thanks to partial contributors and past members: Alex Cullum, Karol Gregor, Rosemary Ke, Junkyung Kim, Matthew Jackson, Andrew Lampinen, Loic Matthey, Hannah Openshaw, and Zhengdong Wang.
A big thank you to all the game developers who have partnered with us: Coffee Stain (Valheim, Satisfactory, Goat Simulator 3), Foulball Hangover (Hydroneer), Hello Games (No Man’s Sky), Keen Software House (Space Engineers), RubberbandGames (Wobbly Life), Strange Loop Games (Eco), Thunderful Games (ASKA, The Gunk, Steamworld Build), Digixart (Road 96), Tuxedo Labs & Saber Interactive (Teardown).
We would like to thank Vika Koriakin, Duncan Smith, Nilesh Ray, Matt Miller, Leen Verburgh, Ashyana Kachra, Phil Esposito, Dimple Vijaykumar, Piers Wingfield, and Lucie Kerley for their valuable partnership in developing and refining key components of this project.
We would also like to thank Jack Parker-Holder, Shlomi Fruchter, and other members of the Genie team for access to the Genie 3 model.
We would like to recognize the many teams at Google and Google DeepMind that contributed to this effort, including our Legal, Marketing, Communications, Responsibility and Safety Council, Responsible Development and Innovation, Policy, Strategy and Operations, and Business Development and Corporate Development teams. We would also like to thank all GDM teams not explicitly mentioned here for their continued support.
Finally, we dedicate this work to the memory of our colleagues Felix Hill and Fabio Pardo, whose contributions to our field continue to inspire us.
