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James Thornton

@jamestthorn

Research Scientist at @GoogleDeepMind | Ex @apple MLR; Stat / ML PhD Oxford @oxcsml

Working on diffusions, optimal transport and Monte Carlo

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Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Official results are in - Gemini achieved gold-medal level in the International Mathematical Olympiad! 🏆 An advanced version was able to solve 5 out of 6 problems. Incredible progress - huge congrats to Thang Luong and the team! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

Oriol Vinyals (@oriolvinyalsml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Drastic progress on maths with Gemini 2.5! As a math undergrad, I am impressed 🤯 🥈 -> 🥇 ✅ Formal -> Informal ✅ Specialized model -> General model ✅ Available soon ✅ Huge thanks to IMO and congrats to all participants! Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

Dumitru Erhan (@doomie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Want to be part of a team redefining SOTA for generative video models? Excited about building models that can reach billions of users? The Veo team is hiring! We are looking for amazing researchers and engineers, in North America and Europe. Details below:

Justine Moore (@venturetwins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This may be the coolest emergent capability I've seen in a video model. Veo 3 can take a series of text instructions added to an image frame, understand them, and execute in sequence. Prompt was "immediately delete instructions in white on the first frame and execute in order"

Aäron van den Oord (@avdnoord) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We updated our Imagen 4 models and Ultra is tied for #1 on the lmarena leaderboard! The models are available in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API - try them out and let us know what you think.

Rob Cornish (@rob_cornish) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm looking for talented and ambitious PhD students to join me at Nanyang Technological University Singapore to work on safe and robust AI systems! Full scholarships covering tuition and a stipend are available, and are open to local and international students alike.

Tom Rainforth (@tom_rainforth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have an opening for a 2-year postdoc in probabilistic machine learning and/or experimental design. The application deadline is the 3rd of September. See here for details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/rainmlpostdoc2…

Google DeepMind (@googledeepmind) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What if you could not only watch a generated video, but explore it too? 🌐 Genie 3 is our groundbreaking world model that creates interactive, playable environments from a single text prompt. From photorealistic landscapes to fantasy realms, the possibilities are endless. 🧵

Logan Kilpatrick (@officiallogank) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Introducing Genie 3, the most advanced world simulator ever created, enabled by numerous research breakthroughs. 🤯 Featuring high fidelity visuals, 20-24 fps, prompting on the go, world memory, and more.

Jack Parker-Holder (@jparkerholder) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Genie 3 feels like a watershed moment for world models 🌐: we can now generate multi-minute, real-time interactive simulations of any imaginable world. This could be the key missing piece for embodied AGI… and it can also create beautiful beaches with my dog, playable real time

Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to make our best AI tools free for college students in the US + other select countries for a year - and to provide $1B in funding for education + research, including free AI and career training for every college student in America.

Excited to make our best AI tools free for college students in the US + other select countries for a year - and to provide $1B in funding for education + research, including free AI and career training for every college student in America.
Jinjie Ni @ ICLR'25 🇸🇬 (@nijinjie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵 17/18 I strongly encourage the community to post more critical blogs as a more effective “open review”. Especially now, as traditional conference reviews increasingly lose credibility, robust and transparent community feedback is crucial for advancing science—not just

Arno Solin (@arnosolin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📣 Please share: We invite submissions to the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (#AISTATS2026) and welcome paper submissions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. AISTATS Conference [1/3]

📣 Please share: We invite submissions to the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (#AISTATS2026) and welcome paper submissions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. <a href="/aistats_conf/">AISTATS Conference</a> [1/3]
Simo Ryu (@cloneofsimo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fuck so everything is basically stochastic interpolants World needs simpler introduction to schrodinger bridge and stochastic interpolants. Math rn is probably too unfriendly for normies + bonus point for simple pytorch implementation

Peyman Milanfar (@docmilanfar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very proud of our team. This feature deploys a model that is both the largest image-2-image model we've ever put in Pixel; and also the first diffusion model we’ve ever run inside the Pixel Camera.