Max
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Max
@maxan
Tech, AV. PM @waymo. Ex @google @adobe @BerkeleyHaas. Founded @ahappyjob. Dad. Optimist. Immigrant. Lifelong learner. Curious amateur. ☕♩ 📖 🏋 🏃


We’re excited to introduce the Waymo World Model—a frontier generative mode for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation built on @GoogleDeepMind’s Genie 3. By simulating the “impossible”, we proactively prepare the Waymo Driver for some of the most rare and complex scenarios—from tornadoes to planes landing on freeways—long before it encounters them in the real world. waymo.com/blog/2026/02/t…


We’re starting 2026 focused on what matters most: our riders and those we share the streets with. While our roads can feel chaotic, the Waymo Driver provides a consistent, safe, and calm space to get you where you’re going.

@joshwoodward @GeminiApp A better UI. Google-grade search. Transitions under 100ms. Organization (stars and tags). Gems! Navigate to any in <2sec; default model selection. A fully-featured player for TTS (speed controls, rewind, background playback, etc.).

took a ride to @flySFO in a waymo, at night, in the rain, on the freeway






Gemini 3 Deep Think is now available for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the @GeminiApp, incorporating our gold medal winning IMO and ICPC technologies! 🏅With its parallel thinking capabilities it can tackle highly complex maths & science problems - enjoy!



🚨BREAKING: @GoogleDeepMind’s Gemini 3 Pro users are still going bananas. 🍌 The community has been voting on Nano Banana Pro with 2k resolution, and it has claimed the top spot in major Arena categories vs. the default 1k variant. 🥇#1 in Text-to-Image (+8 point leap over nano-banana-pro) 🥇#1 in Image Edit (+10 point leap over nano-banana-pro) Benchmarking the 2k preview separately from the default 1k Nano Banana Pro reveals the true depth of the model's capabilities. Stay tuned for the 4k resolution coming soon. Congratulations to everyone at @GoogleDeepMind on this milestone!

While I wasn't looking, slide generation in Google's NotebookLM became impressive Here I threw in 10 academic papers I authored & it summarized them into a coherent (& quite pretty) deck. I saw no hallucinations, but nano banana results in some occasional spelling & graph issues
