Jeff Dean (@🏡) liked my cool tshirt at the AGI House hackathon today

Excited to share Penzai, a JAX research toolkit from Google DeepMind for building, editing, and visualizing neural networks! Penzai makes it easy to see model internals and lets you inject custom logic anywhere.

Check it out on GitHub: github.com/google-deepmin…

For the past year we've been working on ALOHA Unleashed 🌋 @GoogleDeepmind - pushing the scale and dexterity of tasks on our ALOHA 2 fleet. Here is a thread with some of the coolest videos!

The first task is hanging a shirt on a hanger (autonomous 1x)

Being able to interpret an #ML model’s hidden representations is key to understanding its behavior. Today we introduce Patchscopes, an approach that trains #LLMs to provide natural language explanations of their own hidden representations. Learn more → goo.gle/4aS5epd

Congratulations to Avi Wigderson on winning this year's Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award! 🎉 His contributions to how randomness and computation interact have significantly shaped modern computing.

Our new work in Nature Medicine

Using generative models in path, radiology and derm - we can create synthetic training data to ⬆️ AI fairness & robustness, including underrepresented groups. Work w/ a great team Google DeepMind Google AI Google Health

nature.com/articles/s4159…

TPU v5p, our most powerful and scalable TPU, is now generally available! #GoogleCloudNext

Bunch of improvements to Gemini 1.5 Pro today:

* No waitlist on the API.
* Better at reasoning, multimodal, instruction-following and a bunch of other evals.
* Video+Audio support: Video inputs can now parse audio as well on AIStudio.

developers.googleblog.com/2024/04/gemini…

✨ Today, we're making Gemini 1.5 Pro available via the Gemini API in a public preview, along with native audio (speech) understanding. And we're also addressing many developer asks.

#BuildWithGemini → goo.gle/3xxaUH1

See what's being launched 🧵⬇️

Architectural changes enable significantly higher throughput for a RecurrentGemma-variant of the Gemma models.

Widespread availability of Gemini 1.5 Pro in 180+ countries, with long context and audio capabilities. Now in public preview.

I'm looking forward to visiting Purdue Boilermakers for the first time tomorrow! I'll be giving a lecture at noon in Fowler Hall.

Purdue BoilermakersEngineers

engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs/N…

Gemini 1.5 Pro's video understanding is the most underrated things in AI.

In ~50s, it 'saw' a 11min Youtube video (~175k tokens) of the most iconic moments in sport and was able to perfectly (to my knowledge) list all 18 of the moments.

There is no other video AI this good!

New versions of Gemma models with a bunch of improvements to instruction following, factuality, reasoning and more are now out.

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This article has some interesting and alarming data on warming trends in Antarctica. This graph seems very worrisome (I wondered what the total area was and later in the article it says 'Antarctica’s ice sheet covers 14m square kilometres').
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Great visualization, eclipsed only by the rate increases!

What happens when the demand curve shifts to the right, and supply is vertical?
[Source: nytimes.com/2024/04/04/ups…]

Hi everyone! I am Elisabeth Bik, PhD, a science integrity consultant and volunteer.
In this thread for #YoungScientistNetworking (invited by Teddy Zartler aka @quantumtessera.bsky.social), I will tell a bit about my somewhat unusual career.
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I strongly believe that the U.S. is at its best when it brings in talented scientists and engineers from all over the world to study, to be hired into companies to push forward our most advanced science and engineering efforts, and to start new U.S.-based companies. We should

Excited to share I’ve joined Google to lead product for AI Studio and support the Gemini API.

Lots of hard work ahead, but we are going to make Google the best home for developers building with AI.

I’m not going to settle for anything less.