Jeff Dean is a computer scientist who spent 27 years at Google, where he worked on systems such as MapReduce and Bigtable, before leaving the company. Recent coverage includes his co-founding of Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals, his first public talk since leaving Google, and his comments on Waymo safety data, Periodic Labs' materials labs and the Glimpse visual model.
Have a glimpse at this! Nice work, @AndrewDai and Elorian folks! [Quoting @AndrewDai]: Spent years watching models ace a single image and completely whiff on anything that moves or changes angle. Today we’re fixing that. Try Glimpse now, our first visual thi…
Very sorry to hear this news. 😥 I never had the chance to meet Margaret Hamilton, but her contributions to the flight software that got us to the moon are legendary. I love this image of her standing next to the printouts of the Apollo code. [Quoting @MIT]:…
Proud to have collaborated with many others on quite a few of these things! [Quoting @deedydas]: claude just generated this 2 minute video about the history of Google and it goes so goddamn hard
The safety data for Waymo gets better and better. Comparison w/ human drivers on rate of crashes with serious injury: Latest data: 270M miles, 20X better Mar 2026: 170M miles, 13X better Before that (forget exactly when): 10X better [Quoting @Waymo]: 270M+ mi…
This was recorded a few months ago when I was still at Google and it was a really fun conversation! [Quoting @WR4NYGov]: How does this only have 21,000 views in 8 days? Chat with @JeffDean (then Google) and Bill Jia about large scale AI models.
Did you know you can learn interesting things from computations in real rat neurons? I love what @AlexKsendzovsky and team are doing at @BioComputingCo are doing. [Quoting @AlexKsendzovsky]: What happens when neurons meet silicon? A new world emerges. Partne…
Thanks for the great discussion, @dawnsongtweets! [Quoting @dawnsongtweets]: I had the great honor and pleasure of sitting down with @JeffDean for his first public talk since leaving Google, where he spent an extraordinary 27 years. Few people have shaped mod…
Exciting results, @LiamFedus! Congrats to the whole team at Periodic Labs! [Quoting @LiamFedus]: We built high-throughput materials labs in Menlo Park to create a loop between experiments and models. The labs generate fresh data, the models learn from it, an…
Ex-DeepMind VP Vinyals: self-improvement won't spark explosionFormer DeepMind research head Oriol Vinyals says recursive self-improvement is unlikely to trigger a sudden intelligence explosion due to bottlenecks in idea generation and evaluation. He co-founded Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat and Quoc Le to address these limits.
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