Let us please talk more about mental health in the AI community. I was shocked and reminded of this by the sad and tragic death of this young colleague with so much talent. Many of the people in our community are likely on the spectrum; ADHD, autism, Asperger’s and so on. This

Introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental model that explicitly shows its thoughts. Built on 2.0 Flash’s speed and performance, this model is trained to use thoughts to strengthen its reasoning. And we see promising results when we increase inference time

AI hit a wall and broke through the wall

Santa Arrived! The PDF (of a colorful Xmas version) of the "Introduction to Universal AI" book is now freely available online at hutter1.net/ai/uaibook2.htm Wishing you all joyful reading, Merry Xmas & a :-) New Year.

I’m really sad that my dear friend Felix Hill is no longer with us. He had many friends and colleagues all over the world - to try to ensure we reach them, his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix

if you have no other joy in your life other than thinking of your importance as AI researcher then GO FIND SOMETHING ELSE (e.g. sports, arts, friends, kids) stay grounded and preserve your mental health this may sound trivial, but given recent events, worth repeating

Kyunghyun Cho wrote a thoughtful note on the AI job market. I think he gets some important things right. Other things seem different from my perspective. My own stream of consciousness inspired by Kyunghyun Cho's essay and the broader discourse.

Did you know you can use '@' <tab> or '<at>Gemini' to access Gemini in the desktop Chrome address bar? Super convenient! You can also use: <at>Tabs to search your tabs <at> History to search your history <at>Bookmarks to find bookmarks 9to5google.com/2024/05/02/gem…

Re: “Every major breakthrough in AI has been American”: America does itself no favors when it overestimates its specialness. Yes, the center of the AI industry is the US (California!), but many of the breakthroughs of (neural, gradient-based) AI happened elsewhere: • LSTMs,

In his 40s, after inventing the Hopfield network 10 years ahead of Hopfield, legend Professor Amari got bored with neural networks and decided to revolutionize information geometry

If you don't already put your papers on ArXiv/BioRxiv, you should really start doing it. Pretty soon most interaction with the scientific literature will be via agents, and it's way easier for agents to access things on ArXiv/BioRxiv.

Think you know Gemini? 🤔 Think again. Meet Gemini 2.5: our most intelligent model 💡 The first release is Pro Experimental, which is state-of-the-art across many benchmarks - meaning it can handle complex problems and give more accurate responses. Try it now →

BREAKING: Gemini 2.5 Pro is now #1 on the Arena leaderboard - the largest score jump ever (+40 pts vs Grok-3/GPT-4.5)! 🏆 Tested under codename "nebula"🌌, Gemini 2.5 Pro ranked #1🥇 across ALL categories and UNIQUELY #1 in Math, Creative Writing, Instruction Following, Longer

Introducing Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental. The 2.5 series marks a significant evolution: Gemini models are now fundamentally thinking models. This means the model reasons before responding, to maximize accuracy -- and it’s our best Gemini model yet. Blog -

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Ethan Dyer and I have started a new team at Anthropic — and we’re hiring! Our team is organized around the north star goal of building an AI scientist: a system capable of solving the long-term reasoning challenges and core capabilities needed to push the scientific

So how well do the best VLMs (e.g. Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4o, Claude 3.7) perform on VideoGameBench? 🥁 Really bad! Most models can’t progress at all in any games on VideoGameBench, which span a wide range of genres like platformers, FPS, RTS, RPGs, and more!

I always found it puzzling how language models learn so much from next-token prediction, while video models learn so little from next frame prediction. Maybe it's because LLMs are actually brain scanners in disguise. Idle musings in my new blog post: sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-mod…

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