Abstract: It is argued that gravity is an emergent interaction that appears in the equilibrium domain of certain deterministic models of emergent quantum mechanics. In this talk,� first we introduce the models and their dynamics. Then we show that the interaction near the equilibrium states has the characteristics of a classical gravitational interaction: it is classical and diffeomorphism invariance, contains� a maximal speed for interaction and a weak equivalence principle holds good. The second argument shows that Newtonian gravity is an interaction of the type required by our models for the equilibrium domain, that is, it is a 1-Lipschitz regular interaction. As a consequence of the theory, we predict that for elementary particles the weak equivalence principle holds exactly, except for energies comparable to the Planck energy, when the principle abruptly breaks down.