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This research was developed by the SIMA 2 team: Maria Abi Raad, John Agapiou, Frederick Besse, Andrew Bolt, Sarah Chacera, Harris Chan, Jeff Clune, Alexandra Cordell, Martin Engelke, Ryan Faulkner, Maxime Gazeau, Arne Olav Hallingstad, Tim Harley, Ed Hurst, Drew Hudson, Laura Kampis, Shelim Kashem, Thomas Keck, Matija Kecman, Oscar Knagg, Alexander Lerchner, Bonnie Lee, Yulan Liu, Kang Lu, Maria Lox-Thompson, Joseph Marino, Kay McKinney, Piermaria Mendolicchio, Anna Mitenkova, Alexandre Moufarek, Fabio Pardo, Ollie Purkis, David Reichert, John Reed, Tyson Roberts, Daniel P. Sawyer, Tim Shoults, Daniel Slater, Hubert Sawyer, Kaustubh Sridhar, Peter Stice, Typhoon Terzi, David Vercelli, Bojan Vujatovic, Zhen X Wang, Luyu Wang, Duncan Williams, and Lei M Zhang.
For their leadership, guidance, and support, we thank: Satinder Singh Baweja, Adrian Bolton, Zobin Ghahramani, Raya Hadsell, Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Volodymyr Manih, and Dan Vierstra.
With great gratitude to partial contributors and past members: Alex Cullum, Karol Gregor, Rosemary Kay, Junkyung Kim, Matthew Jackson, Andrew Lampinen, Loic Matthey, Hannah Openshaw, and Zhengdong Wang.
Special thanks to all the game developers who partnered with us: Coffee Stan (Valheim, Satisfying, Goat Simulator 3), Foulball Hangover (hydroneer), Hello Games (No Man’s Sky), Keen Software House (space engineer), rubberbandgames(faltering life), Weird Loop Games (echo), Thunderful Games (ASKA, The Gunk, Road 96, Steamworld Build), and Tuxedo Labs and Saber Interactive (tear down).
We thank Vika Koryakin, Duncan Smith, Nilesh Ray, Matt Miller, Leanne Verberg, Ashiana Kachra, Phil Esposito, Dimple Vijayakumar, Pierce Wingfield, Lucy Kerley for their invaluable partnership in developing and refining key components of this project.
We also thank Jack Parker-Holder, Shlomi Fruchter, and the rest of the Genie team for access to the Genie 3 model.
We want to recognize the many teams at Google and Google DeepMind that have contributed to this effort, including legal, marketing, communications, responsibility and safety councils, responsible growth and innovation, policy, strategy and operations, and our business and corporate development teams. We would also like to thank all the 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.