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Google built a game engine you can talk to

PLUS: Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon

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Barsee
29 Oct

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howdy, it’s Barsee again.

happy thursday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

  • Google just made a game engine you can talk to

  • Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon

  • Anthropic is coming for the legal department

  • Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

WISPR FLOW

Courtesy: Wispr Flow

Some problems don't solve themselves at a keyboard. Flow is perfect for walks: talk through the idea, the structure, the tradeoffs—then get back a clean draft you can paste into your doc or AI tool. It's like having a writing assistant that keeps up with your brain in motion.

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

Courtesy: Google DeepMind

1/ Google just made a game engine you can talk to. Genie 4 generates explorable 3D worlds in real time, with physics, sound and characters you can talk to. You can change the weather, add objects or people, and reshape the world while playing. Some of the demos look surprisingly close to actual games.

Imagine an MMO where players can build towns, invent quests or create entire worlds just by describing them. No game editor, no coding. I'd probably spend more time making things than actually playing.

There's still the small problem of objects disappearing, physics going wonky and worlds losing consistency over longer sessions. But Google is already testing Genie with game developers, filmmakers and robotics teams. It's in limited research preview, with AI Ultra access coming.

2/ Google is back at #1 with Gemini 4 Carbon. A day after Genie 4, Google released another frontier model. Carbon scores 59 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, narrowly beating Claude Opus 5.5 (58) and GPT-6 Astra (57). Google says its engineers have had it working on difficult problems for days, recovering from failures and fixing its own mistakes. Would love to see that tested independently.

But Sundar Pichai's comments on Google's earnings call might be the bigger story. He says AI is already helping Google train and release models faster, and expects further acceleration over the next 12 months because of recursive self-improvement (RSI). AI helping build better AI, in other words.

That doesn't mean Google has cracked self-improvement, but it's quite something to hear its CEO talking about it so openly. Argon became widely available just 15 days ago, and we're already discussing its successor. If AI is genuinely speeding up model development, I wonder how long a flagship model will even remain a flagship.

Carbon is limited to selected cybersecurity defenders for now.

3/ Anthropic is coming for the legal department. Claude for Legal now has ready-made tools for reviewing contracts, monitoring regulations and handling legal requests. Teams can customize and share them, with links back to the original sources.

Anthropic already has tools for finance, accounting, design and spreadsheets. Now legal. At some point you start wondering which department isn't getting its own Claude.

Harvey and Legora have raised hundreds of millions building specialized tools for lawyers, and now the companies supplying the underlying intelligence are starting to build the workflows too. A lot of expensive legal software could eventually become a feature inside a Claude subscription.

There's a funny twist, though. Harvey actually helped build one of the new Claude tools, and Legora is an integration partner. So they're simultaneously customers, partners and potential competitors. Not an easy relationship to navigate.

I don't think legal AI startups are doomed, though. The ones deeply embedded in law firms, with trusted data and workflows, have a real advantage. But charging thousands for something a frontier model can eventually do for a fraction of the price is becoming a risky business.

TRENDING TOOLS

  • Claude for Legal - a gallery of ready-made artifacts for contract review, regulatory horizon scans, cite checks, and more

  • Echo-3 - turns phone captures into photorealistic, metric-scale 3D worlds. From a single room to multi-floor buildings, outdoor and public spaces

  • ChatGPT - can now connect to iCloud Calendar and Mail on web desktop and iOS

  • Dalet Labs - an AI generative commerce app that builds a personalized Instagram-style feed of lifelike product scenes (outfits, furniture, accessories) matched to your taste—every item is real and buyable in-app

  • OpenDuet - An open-source proactive agent that gets your work done and keeps you in the loop

  • LFM-3 - open-source model that runs on your phone/laptop with no internet, understands your voice, understands what you see, and does tasks on your behalf

  • Genie 4 - Google has unveiled its latest world model, with increased realism and audio capabilities

  • Kimi K3.1 Pro - a new open-source model. Benchmarks say it’s at Opus 5.5 level

  • Dessa - Block unveiled its "true speech-to-speech model" that can run locally on MacBook Pro M4 Max

  • Dedica - runs 125 checks to see whether an AI agent can find, navigate, use, and pay on your website, then hands you fixes for each problem it finds

  • Coworkers - build your own AI teammates, each with a computer and browser, on Cloudflare

  • Director - a video director that takes a brief and plans, shoots, cuts and delivers short films, ads, explainers or music videos

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