This is a great high-level explainer from TwoMinutePapers of our new SIMA 2 work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZFH...

Can't tell you how great it is to finally be able to release and talk about this work, SIMA 2, the next step toward embodied intelligence in rich, interactive 3D worlds! deepmind.google/sima

Nice tweet thread from @dannypsawyer on work exploring how well frontier models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini explore in interactive, multi-turn settings - to be presented at NeurIPS workshops this December!

Social media is optimised for engagement. Chatbots are optimised to be useful. That makes all the difference

This might be a hot take, but I think social media has done much more damage to humanity than AGI has the potential to do. At this point, I think AGI will likely be a net positive by ameliorating some of the catastrophic effects of social media.

Genie 3: A general world model Google announced Genie 3, a world model that can generate 3D scenes in real-time, meaning that it can be used to create 3D experiences that you can immediately use. Like a dynamic video game limited by your own imagination deepmind.google/discover/blo...

NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cc

Key-value memory is an important concept in modern machine learning (e.g., transformers). Ila Fiete, Kazuki Irie, and I have written a paper showing how key-value memory provides a way of thinking about memory organization in the brain: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02950

bye, felix kyunghyuncho.me/bye-felix/

Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.

A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...

Merry Christmas Bluesky! 💙

Looking forward to speaking at the CALM workshop today at 930! I'll be talking about causal reasoning in foundation agents #neurips2024 calm-workshop-2024.github.io

(From Feb. 10, 2021): Introducing a benchmark task for meta-reinforcement learning: Alchemy! Train agents or play it yourself, this environment comes with interesting latent structure that encourages experimentation and structure learning. github.com/google-deepm... neurips.cc/virtual/2021...

Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.

When will Bluesky get a "trending" feature? I always enjoyed looking at what an entire country was thinking about at any given moment 😄

Applications are open for student researcher positions at Google DeepMind for 2025! Due date Dec 13 www.google.com/about/career...

The speed of growth on this platform is insane! Really feels like it's hit a critical point. At what point can we just consider it a clone of Twitter?

Great list!

Now that I've moved over here, I'll start by introducing some of my major pieces of research, starting with the most recent, SIMA: A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo... Tech report: arxiv.org/abs/2404.10179

To help find people at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Of course let me know if I missed someone or you’d like to be added 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence go.bsky.app/CAfmKQs

If you're an RL researcher or RL adjacent, pipe up to make sure I've added you here! go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg

One of strongest takeaways I have from this election: people have no idea what tariffs are

But how will I know who to follow without blue checks to let me know who's paying $8/month? 🤔