A top artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI for Google is assembling a new team to build large models simulating the entire world.

Tim Brooks decamped from Open AI, the maker of ChatGPT, for Google DeepMind, the Big Tech company’s AI unit, last year and he has designs on developing artificial general intelligence, AGI.

Tech developers and researchers use the term AGI to describe a hypothetical artificially intelligent system that can outperform humans across all cognitive domains.

“DeepMind has ambitious plans to make massive generative models that simulate the world,” Mr. Brooks said Monday on social media platforms X and LinkedIn. “I’m hiring for a new team with this mission. Come build with us!”

Mr. Brooks also shared job listings for engineers and scientists to join Google’s team to help with “an ambitious project to build generative models that simulate the physical world.”

“We believe scaling pre-training on video and multimodal data is on the critical path to artificial general intelligence,” the jobs listings said. “World models will power numerous domains, such as visual reasoning and simulation, planning for embodied agents, and real-time interactive entertainment.”

Other companies are seeking to harness new AI technologies through robots and believe they can build artificial general intelligence as well.

Earlier this week, NVIDIA announced the release of a new platform intended to help developers train their human robots using “imitation learning” to more closely resemble humans.

The race toward AGI is heating up in the private sector and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Sunday that his company has its sights set on superintelligence.

“We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” Mr. Altman wrote on his blog. “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies.”

• Ryan Lovelace can be reached at rlovelace@washingtontimes.com.