@poolio

ex-google brain and deepmind. phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

 San Francisco, CA
poolio.github.io
Joined March 2008
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Real-world models are here! Stoked to share how we're bringing real-world locations to life by integrating Street View into Genie. Try it now at labs.google/fx/projectgenie and read the blog for more info: blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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SpAItial AI
@SpAItial_AIOct 6
We're hiring at SpAItial 🚀🚀🚀 Want to build AI that generates 3D worlds and understands their physics? 15 roles in London & Munich: 🧠 RS: World Models · 3D Diffusion · 3D Recon · Robot Learning 🛠️ RE: World Models · 3D Recon · Graphics ⚡ ML Infra · Inference Join us 👇
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Woohoo big congrats to @KarlDeisseroth et al! Optogenetics is such an important tool for neuroscience. I was lucky to start off my PhD working with @logangrosenick @broxtronix and other great folks in the D-lab burning GPUs before it was cool on lightfield microscopy (cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… & biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…)

Neuronal Dynamics Regulating Brain and Behavioral State Transitions

Brainwide imaging in zebrafish and network modeling reveal that switching from active to passive coping state arises from progressive activation of habenular neurons in response to behavioral...

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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 5
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Congratulations to our first #NobelPrize laureate of 2026 🎉 Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He seems very happy with the news!
Karl Deisseroth on the phone looking happy

ALT Karl Deisseroth on the phone looking happy

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Alex Albert
@alexalbert__Sep 22
I've been on a Blender kick with Opus 5.5. Its better 3D modeling and vision mean you can build an entire world from a single prompt. Historically accurate San Francisco Market street in 1906, pre-earthquake
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Alex Albert
@alexalbert__Sep 22
I just realized Opus 5.5 can use Blender to make claymations with just a single prompt in claude dot ai now
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sketch-to-simulation with Opus 5.5
Claude
@claudeaiSep 22
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family. It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.
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Matt Redmond
@mttrdmndSep 17
Got married in the park (in a bicycle parade) last weekend and @peterhartlaub put together such a lovely article about it! sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti…

They wanted an all-bike S.F. wedding. But what about 95-year-old Grandma Meryl?

Debs Schrimmer and Matt Redmond had an unusual wedding request: They wanted every guest to ride to the reception on a bicycle through Golden Gate Park. Here’s how it went.

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Sander Dieleman
@sedielemSep 14
We are hiring research scientists and engineers🧑‍🔬 on the Gemini Omni team! Both in the US (Mountain View / SF) and Europe (London / Zürich). Apply here: google.com/about/careers/app…
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Keunhong Park
@KeunhongPSep 1
Atlas is live! A spatial foundation model, trained in-house from scratch. After shipping RTFM last year, I was convinced a single camera-conditioned model could unify most spatial generation tasks. Atlas is that bet at scale. The core idea👇
World Labs
@theworldlabsSep 1
Introducing Atlas: The world's first multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D. Model the world, move the camera, and simulate space & time.
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Robin Rombach
@robrombachAug 4
Two years later our first video model - FLUX 3 Video - is finally released🥹. This is such a strong, fun and versatile model made by the best team in the world @bfl_ai. We will add further variants and generation from references in the near future. I am also super excited about the upcoming open weight, action prediction and image variants of FLUX 3.
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Shaun Singh
@shaunxsinghJul 16
Fortunate to work with this team every day, ACT-2 is a big leap. Working on real Solves is a blast. Next Stop: Recursive Solve Improvement
Tony Zhao
@tonyzzhaoJul 16
Introducing ACT-2 Preview The first robotics model to unify broad generalization with high reliability. A single fine-tuning example can teach Memo a new behavior that generalizes. Zero shot, real unseen homes, 99% success rate.
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Oliver Wang@oliver_wang2Jun 30
1/2 Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite! We are working hard at the next frontier model, but in the meantime enjoy this fast and cheap Nano Banana (Pico Banana?). It returns images in only a few seconds, and with most of the smarts of the NB2 model! deepmind.google/models/gemin…

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google DeepMind

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We’re shipping 2 major releases:
 🔘 Nano Banana 2 Lite: our fastest and cheapest Gemini Image model 🔘 Gemini Omni Flash: now available via the Gemini API and in @GoogleAIStudio to help developers generate and edit high-quality videos.
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After 15 years (4 internships and exactly 8 years full-time), today is my last day at Google. Growing up as a scientist at Brain and DeepMind was an incredible privilege, and I'm so thankful for the people who made it such a special place. I went from editing decision trees by hand as an intern, to exploring representation learning, latent-variable models, and diffusion as an AI researcher, to kicking off a new wave in generative 3D with DreamFusion, to scaling up generative models with Veo, Genie, and Omni. We're just beginning to build systems that can understand and simulate the real world, and I'm excited to see what’s next 🧠🐸🚀
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Thanks to @Cannes_Lions for recognizing Project Genie with the Grand Prix in Digital Craft: "The real breakthrough happens when creativity unlocks what technology can become" canneslions.com/news/cannes-…
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Huge congratulations to the Project Genie team on taking home the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for AI Craft! 🎉 Thank you @Cannes_Lions for recognizing how Genie pushes beyond conventional creative limitations to achieve outcomes unattainable without frontier AI… Another unexpected consequence of scaling world models :) Try it yourself here: labs.google/projectgenie
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Arena.ai
@arenaJun 11
Exciting news: Gemini Omni Flash is now #1 in the Video Arena (both Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video)! For Text-to-Video this is a massive +158 pt improvement over Veo 3.1 (1080p) and a large +61 pt lead over the next best model, Seedance 2.0. Congrats @GoogleDeepMind for this huge milestone!
Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMindMay 19
We’re dropping Gemini Omni: our first step towards a model that can create anything from anything - starting with video. It combines Gemini’s intelligence with our generative media systems - representing a leap forward in world understanding, multimodality, and editing 🧵
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Google Labs
@GoogleLabsJun 10
🌍 Project Genie access is expanding even more! Starting today, Google AI Ultra 5X subscribers (our latest tier!) globally can access Project Genie. Try it out here! labs.google/projectgenie

Project Genie

Project Genie is an experimental prototype that lets you create and explore infinitely diverse worlds.

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Google Labs
@GoogleLabsMay 20
We love seeing all of the worlds you’ve been creating with Genie. SO much so, that we’re excited to announce Project Genie is now fully available to all Google AI Ultra subscribers globally (18+).
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Sumith Kulal
@sumith1896Jun 6
Diffusion Circle happening today @CVPR #CVPR2026 Upper Lobby F at 3:30pm, come join us!
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