Ricky Wong

We are rolling out video overviews in @GeminiApp. You can now watch an answer rather than just reading it! Try: 🐾 "What does exploring a smelly room look like for a dog?" 🏙️ "Explain what would happen if the Chicago river became a natural ecosystem. Show how it works."

10 years ago, there were 10 people around my kitchen table. No structure, no brand, no certainty. Just a handful of builders showing up for something that yet didn’t exist. Since then @southpkcommons has grown to over a 1000 members. Today, 25,000 people apply to SPC every year. We have offices in SF, NYC, and Bangalore. But SPC isn’t about the numbers, it’s about the people and what emerges when they choose to show up for each other. It looks like @anuraggoel, already successful and credible, showing up with generosity, helping others, sharing work, iterating in public. Patterns sharpened and @render was born. It looks like @thejamescad and @dbabbs, who met at SPC to become cofounders building @tryprofound. One of the superpowers of SPC is the collision rate—not the shallow kind, but the kind that only happens when people keep showing up long enough to build trust. It looks like @MaximilianMona, who moved out to California in an RV to be at SPC and eventually build Ironsite. That’s someone saying, with their whole life: this matters. And it looks like @AshtonJEaton, an Olympic gold medalist, walking into SPC not for a career pivot, but for a deeper reinvention. To trade mastery for learning. Not for optics. For truth. SPC has been designed by the community and for the community, with one goal that hasn’t changed: pay it forward. We’ve helped normalize taking time to find truly meaningful work, whatever shape that might take. So on this ten-year anniversary, I want to thank the people who made SPC what it is. The ones who showed up when they didn’t have a narrative. The ones who lived in the question — and lingered in uncertainty for long enough to find out. The ones who came back, again and again, for the work and for each other. Happy ten years, SPC. Thank you for showing up!

@oddclaw @GoogleDeepMind @nbrichtova Welcome to the team :-)

After almost 2 years of building the video gen API business for Google Cloud, thrilled to share that I joined @GoogleDeepMind Ill be working on the next generation of video generation models with the amazing team that brought you Veo 3 and Nano Banana. @nbrichtova @kinwong @nainar92 @heyitsbeaaaaaaa

We launched Veo 3.1 and a new set of capabilities. Veo now has 🥇🥈🥉 for image-to-video (with +70 score over the previous version!) and text-to-video (+30) is the first model to break 1400+ in Video Arena history. Please give us feedback at @FlowbyGoogle and @GeminiApp 😊

Awesome to see Veo 3.1 top the LMArena video leaderboards by a large distance with big improvements over Veo 3.0 for text-to-video (+30) and image-to-video (+70)! 🔥Huge congrats to the team! Try it for yourself in flow.google and the @GeminiApp

Glad to be a small part of this update 🥰

We made Veo 3 free on Gemini this weekend. Please give us feedback! 😃

Want to be part of a team redefining SOTA for generative video models? Excited about building models that can reach billions of users? The Veo team is hiring! We are looking for amazing researchers and engineers, in North America and Europe. Details below:

Since I/O in May, you've created 40M+ videos with Veo 3! Now our new photo to video feature in the @Geminiapp lets you create clips inspired by the world around you. Here’s how I imagine our resident dino Stan roams the Google campus when we’re not looking:) Ultra/Pro subscribers can try it now at gemini.google.com.

Veo 3 dropped about 100 hours ago, and it's been on 🔥🔥🔥 ever since Now, we’re excited to announce: + 71 new countries have access + Pro subscribers get a trial pack of Veo 3 on the web (mobile soon) + Ultra subscribers get the highest # of Veo 3 gens w/ refreshes How to try it… ➡️ Gemini (gemini.google): * Great for everyone - click the Video chip in the prompt bar, and just describe your video * Pro subscribers now get a 10-pack so you can try it * Ultra: MAX limits, daily refresh! ➡️ Flow (flow.google): * Great for AI filmmakers * Pro: 10 gens/month * Ultra: Now 125 gens/month (up from 83)!

@joshwoodward This is big!

I joined @GoogleDeepMind 4 months ago to work on generative videos 🎥 From I/O, - Veo 3 deepmind.google/models/veo/ - A suite of controls for Veo 2 - Great partners (e.g. @DarrenAronofsky) - flow.google AI video tool Can't wait the next 4 months ☺️

🚀It’s Launch Day for Tonic Textual! Say goodbye to the integration and privacy headaches of #generative AI. #Textual is the world’s first Secure Data Lakehouse for LLMs. Extract, govern, enrich, and deploy your #unstructureddata for #AI. Support us: hubs.la/Q02yqvn-0

What Vision Pro band size Apple recommends to babies 😎

Congrats to @ethereum on the Merge and can’t wait for the Surge ❤️

Our goal @southpkcommons has been to create a community and ethos of exploration and working on meaningful ideas. @StevenLevy has really captured our esprit de corps. wired.trib.al/ToPPXuD Take your time to figure it out. And then go Big.

The next great novel.

How are people feeling about the new variant B.1.1.529🤷‍♀️ or 😰? yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/new-concerni…

Pitchbook charges over $20K for funding insights & doesn’t let you share the information… I say liberate the data! 🔐 So our team put together a list of all 5K+ founders that raised a Series A within the last year. RT this tweet & I’ll DM you the list Here’s our insights🧵

1/ We're not just looking for current founders to apply to the @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship— We also want anyone who's hesitated in becoming one. That's why we think $400k funding in the pre-idea phase is transformative: it CREATES founders. medium.com/south-park-com…