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? 🤔