Exciting times :) Great to see the hard work of everyone in the team paying off!

Our first talk at IC2S2 today shows that publishing early on arXiv and tweeting leads to more citations in the 5 years from the initial publication. Excellent talk and work by Chhandak Bagchi! Our (revised, soon to appear) paper is accepted to ICWSM'25: arxiv.org/abs/2401.11116

LLMs can play chess! In-context minimax search bootstrapped with values from Stockfish, implemented in Gemini. Paper: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media… Breadth 4, depth 2, you start running out of context window. Chess Elo improves with more test-time compute. Really cool work from

Think you can outsmart Gemini? We challenge you to a chess match! Play Gemini in a game of chess with our newest Gem: Chess champ. Explore different openings as you banter back and forth with Gemini. Available in the Gemini web app. ♟️Can you beat it? → goo.gle/ChessChamp

🚨Breaking: Google DeepMind’s latest Gemini-2.5-Pro is now ranked #1 across all LMArena leaderboards 🏆 Highlights: - #1 in all text arenas (Coding, Style Control, Creative Writing, etc) - #1 on the Vision leaderboard with a ~70 pts lead! - #1 on WebDev Arena, surpassing Claude

thank you for the recognition Gary Marcus! there's room for improvement, but I find it quite remarkable that an LLM learns to play creative sacrifices like this (best move according to Stockfish)

🚨Breaking: New Gemini-2.5-Pro (06-05) takes the #1 spot across all Arenas again! 🥇 #1 in Text, Vision, WebDev 🥇 #1 in Hard, Coding, Math, Creative, Multi-turn, Instruction Following, and Long Queries categories Huge congrats Google DeepMind!

Poster Spotlight! 🔦 Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models ♟️ arxiv.org/abs/2412.12119 On Wednesday (Poster Session 3 East) Presented by Jakub Adamek and Eric Malmi