Yi Fan

@qx_dong @NiJinjie @GoogleDeepMind @quocleix Off policy latte distillation is not as tasty 🥲

@agihippo Now you know 😂

@LimYiFan I actually saw it and wondered who would actually buy the auto park feature 🥲🥲

What's the highest utility per per dollar / ROI things you bought /subbed in the recent years? here's mine (i don't spend much money in general but here's my tier list anyway): S-tier [outsized value / insane] - fitness tracker / pixel watch. 300 dollars and tracks random metrics but the key thing is that it spurs you on to be more health conscious (sleep and exercise) - totally worth it. superb value for money. can't find anything more ROI efficient than this. - good quality snacks that are high in protein (sometimes pricey for snacks but good health is always worth it). For example, high protein ice cream is like 2.5x more expensive, tastes slightly worse but has decent macros. A-tier [pretty good / amazing] - car. A simple tesla in Singapore costs 200K but i found it to be so high ROI somehow because I can travel to play sports easily or go anywhere easily which improves my health & time significantly (two most important metrics!). MRT / grab is ok but somehow even though they are pareto-efficient it's still different driving. A luxury car might be C tier though but I think an affordable EV is super high ROI. - Michelin star fine dining with family. (~800 SGD for 2 people for an unforgettable meal) not bad for good experiences. occasionally though like once a month, not everyday. - X premium. Mostly any other subscription like YT premium, netflix etc. The cost to watch ads is just higher than any cost you pay for subscriptions. - home gym (we paid for a home barbel/dumbbell set years ago for $3K and did more than a thousand sessions combined on that thing). needs some floor space though. - meal prep service. $10 per meal and they ship good quality meals with reasonable stats to you. slightly troublesome but probably good value compared to eating on grab food every single meal/day. B+ / B / B- tier "okay-ish good to okay-ish maybe." - business class tickets for flights >6 hours [B+ tier] necessary for sanity even on your own dime. - top end sports equipment [B+ tier] (one thing i learned in sports like badminton is just buy the expensive rackets anyways instead of finding one like tens of dollars slightly cheaper. - macro tracking app [B+ tier]. (sure, you can track in a spreadsheet too but this spurs you on to be more health conscious). - grand piano (~30k). I don't use it that much even though I used to be a classical pianist but my wife does. but b tier for the vibe enhancements to the house. [B tier] - supplements like vitamins/magnesium/ashwaganda. Makes you feel like you're healthmaxxing but I honestly don't feel any difference even after a few months. They should be based on science but I didn't see any effects except placebo maybe. [B- tier] - personal homepage. I use squarespace and pay like $100 per year or so? I swear I could have used github pages and it would do the same thing but anyways. Not the greatest thing but not the worse [B- tier] D-tier (mostly cancelled or never used) - Linkedin premium (I used to have that on a corp card) but I wouldn't pay for it myself. Useless tier. - Tesla add-ons in Singapore (i don't need to pay extra money i can park myself lol). There's no FSD in Singapore either. - Meditation app (i used one but it was good but time consuming so i deleted and unsubbed) - Ipad or tablet. Between a computer and a phone, what is the point of a tablet?? Things not sure and still wondering - smart ring (i was always tempted to buy one but i have a smart watch and felt it's a waste of money). Am I wrong? - very fancy gym memberships (maybe like 200 SGD per month?) i never got down to sign up because google has a gym and i have one at home too). But are these cold baths, saunas and good lifting vibes worth it? idk. - sleep optimization things like temperature control blankets/sheets etc. (are these worth it?) - probably missed more here. - personal assistant (@swyx suggested this at one point but im still wondering if it's more time cost than doing stuff yourself). i'm looking for things that are high ROI / good pareto frontier to buy and do some weekend retail therapy but have no clue...lmk if any suggestions.

Happy to share that the @GoogleDeepMind Gemini team is starting a new research team in Singapore! This new team will be focused on advanced reasoning, LLM/RL and improving bleeding edge SOTA models such as Gemini, Gemini Deep Think and beyond. 🔥 This team will be led by yours truly and reports up to Quoc Le (@quocleix)'s broader team in Mountain View which was recently in the center of both IMO gold medal and ICPC gold medal breakthroughs with Gemini Deep Think, amongst many other significant Gemini advancements. 🚀 We’re starting out with a very small but intensely capable force because talent density is key over anything else in the LLM era. Over the past few months, we have gone around and gathered the best of the best talent (in the region and beyond) and I’m confident we’ll have a super cracked team very soon. If you are interested in joining and have made truly exceptional contributions in any domain or area, (engineering and/or research etc) please contact me. This is quite an exciting time, with the Gemini / GenAI team at Google Deepmind leading the charge at the frontier. This is also the best opportunity to be on the critical path to AGI from the sunny island of Singapore. 🏝️ Many thanks to leadership support from @quocleix @JeffDean @benoitschilling, @EugenieRives and @demishassabis for the support of this team. Wonderful and fun image generated by Nano Banana 👇

Generating SVG animations of a Pokemon battle using Gemini 3! 😆 Crazy stuff! 🤯

@agihippo Almost cried when I didn't see ramen initially

omg i forgot ramen. ramen in A-tier Additional A-tier: Ramen, Mazesoba

My noodle dish tier list (biased towards what is accessible to me in singapore) S-tier: Soba, Ee fu noodle, Beef noodle A-tier: Udon, Laksa, Mee {pok,rebus,goreng,siam}, Wanton noodles, Prawn noodles B-tier: Spaghetti, Pasta, Pho, Phad Thai C-tier: Hokkien Mee, Meesua, Beehoon, Fried Kway Tiao.

I really enjoyed the day and vibes and I'm sure everyone did as well! Just look at the food and celebratory vibes below 👇. Special thanks to Divy @divy93t who led the organising of this event (all I did was to "host" 😁). Shoutout to my SWE friends at Google SG who went above and beyond to help to make the event a success! Especially @LimYiFan and Justin Yip! All the super nice photos in this thread were taken by Caryn Heng. 😁 There's still more stuff I intended to post in this thread but Im kinda tired so Im gonna put a EOS here. 😂

Excited to share that I'll be hosting some of the world's best AI researchers and engineers for our @GoogleDeepMind Gemini event next week in Singapore 🇸🇬! Join @JeffDean, @quocleix, @benoitschilling, @melvinjohnsonp and @denny_zhou for a day of technical conversations, panels and talks about AI, reasoning and our mission to build a world class AI frontier lab in Singapore. If you're in town and would like to attend, please check the RSVP link below👇. Note, subject to capacity constraints and you'll need to be approved to join.

@YiTayML @agihippo 🔥🔥

When i'm tired of trying to summon AGI with my computer keyboard, I try to play with my other "keyboard". 😀 Somehow, I think that my classical piano training has made me a better coder since I become more resilient to sitting for long hours grinding away at things 🔥

@agihippo 🫡

2009: defending my country literally in the army 🪖 2025: defending my country from unsavoury ai research 🫩

@YiTayML 🔥🔥🔥

The Gemini Deep Think model that achieved IMO gold medal 🥇 is launched! This is a general purpose model that is not only SOTA at math/proofs but also reasoning, code and many others! 🔥 The exact config that achieved IMO gold with scaled up Deep Think is being made available to mathematicians and the general model is launched to the public! Happy to have co-captained/co-led training of this awesome model! 😎🧙

@agihippo Ownself check ownself

This is probably the most apt use of this gold medal meme.

First official Gold medal at IMO from DeepMind🥇 with Gemini Deep Think. A general purpose text-in text-out model achieving gold medal is something quite unthinkable just about one year ago and here we are! The frontier of AI is incredibly exciting! Happy to have co-led / captained model training! 😎 A fun fact was that I got roped into this effort thinking it was going to be a fun little side quest, little did I know that it turned out to be such a huge breakthrough. And yes, the results are certified by the IMO! 😉

@YiTayML @quocleix I can help you film the dance

We have a lot of things to catch up on but apparently this is dance with @quocleix on TikTok is high priority and p0 😂😂😂

More animals like @agihippo appearing on my desk!!! What is going on 😂🤔

Returned to my desk today to see this cute surprise! 🐱😃

@Calclavia @TheLiyenTan Congrats!!

Pitched her in 2018 Finally closed the round in 2025 💍