Acknowledgements
This research 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 Kecman, Oscar Knagg, Alexander Lerchner, Bonnie Li, Yulan Liu, Cong Lu, Maria Loks-Thompson, Joseph Marino, Kay McKinney, Piermaria Mendolicchio, Anna Mitenkova, Alexandre Moufarek, Fabio Pardo, Ollie Purkiss, David Reichert, John Reid, Tyson Roberts, Daniel P. Sawyer, Tim Scholtes, Daniel Slater, Hubert Soyer, Kaustubh Sridhar, Peter Stys, Tayfun Terzi, Davide Vercelli, Bojan Vujatovic, Jane X. Wang, Luyu Wang, Duncan Williams, and Lei M. Zhang.
For their leadership, guidance, and support, we thank: Satinder Singh Baveja, Adrian Bolton, Zoubin Ghahramani, Raia Hadsell, Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Volodymyr Mnih, and Daan Wierstra.
With much gratitude 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.
Special thanks to all of the game developers who 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), and Tuxedo Labs & Saber Interactive (Teardown).
We thank Vika Koriakin, Duncan Smith, Nilesh Ray, Matt Miller, Leen Verburgh, Ashyana Kachra, Phil Esposito, Dimple Vijaykumar, Piers Wingfield, Lucie 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’d like to recognize the many teams across Google and Google DeepMind that have contributed to this effort including Legal, Marketing, Communications, Responsibility and Safety Council, Responsible Development and Innovation, Policy, Strategy and Operations, and our Business and Corporate Development teams. We’d also like to thank all GDM teams that are 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.
