Thomas Kipf
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@tkipf
Sr. Staff RS at @GoogleDeepMind. Gemini Omni Team. Priors: GNNs, Structured World Models, Neural Assets, Veo Ingredients/References, Veo Robotics
A cat that follows instructions? The possibilities are endless. Gemini Omni Flash now available.
I’m at #ICML2026 presenting our latest work! (Today/Tue 2 pm; Hall A #4016) Encoder-only approaches (e.g. DINO, SigLIP, JEPA) are the dominant paradigm for visual perception. Yet we provide evidence that using a generative decoder may be key for human-like data efficiency! 🧵👇
guys, what are we doing 😭
A quick test of using Omni to edit a video and add labelled bounding boxes around objects. > Add a labelled bounding box around the monster truck and the flag
I uploaded a screenshot of Google Maps to Gemini Omni with a route drawn on it. Then I prompted it to create a first person view of someone driving a taxi cab along the route in the reference image. Pretty close to the real thing.
Welcome to Gemini 3.5 Flash, our most powerful model to date. It pushes the frontier of intelligence, speed, and cost putting 3.5 Flash in a class of its own. We spent the last 6 months making sure Flash is great for real world use cases. It's available everywhere now!
@npparikh I doubt all those things are really possible. Infact I believe, you are not doing a good PhD unless you have sleepless nights. Definitely just working on your thesis is possible if you follow a 9-6 schedule, but a good PhD which involves exploring, colabs, etc needs extra hours
Confession: I never had a single work-related sleepless night or ever pulled an all-nighter during my career incl. PhD. Don’t sacrifice your health. Sleep is a superpower — your brain on 8hrs of sleep is a lot smarter than your brain on sleep deprivation. Don’t listen to people who tell you to chronically sacrifice sleep for work. Sacrificing sleep for your kids/family is a different story.
