
Google DeepMind | Prev: @Waymo, @StanfordAILab, CS PhD @GeorgiaTech, Grad @Stanford
Joined April 2020
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John Lambert retweeted
I did say we'd be releasing our models periodically...introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our next frontier model.
Following Argon's release just two weeks ago, Carbon shows the pace at which we’re pushing the frontier, it ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index at 59. It also leads across key cybersecurity evaluations scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching.
We’re seeing significant improvements in long-horizon tasks even compared to Argon, and we’ve strengthened frontier safeguards.
As we did with Argon, we’re going to roll it out gradually + responsibly. Some trusted cyber defenders will get access starting this week. We'll be expanding it to more partners through our Fairwind Program, ahead of wider availability soon, so hang tight!
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After a year of team work, we're thrilled to introduce Depth Anything 3 (DA3)! 🚀
Aiming for human-like spatial perception, DA3 extends monocular depth estimation to any-view scenarios, including single images, multi-view images, and video.
In pursuit of minimal modeling, DA3 reveals two key insights:
💎 A plain transformer (e.g., vanilla DINO) is enough. No specialized architecture.
✨ A single depth-ray representation is enough. No complex 3D tasks.
Three series of models have been released: the main DA3 series, a monocular metric estimation series, and a monocular depth estimation series.
The core team members, aside from me: @HaotongLin, Sili Chen, Jun Hao Liew, @donydchen.
👇(1/n)
#DepthAnything3
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More than 5x growth in paid trips from this time last year — each ride contributing to safer streets and more accessible mobility for all. Here’s to millions more!
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🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding.
Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on @lmarena_ai leaderboard. 🥇
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In May, we announced that we were offering 50k weekly trips. Today, we’re excited to share that we have doubled that number — all while ensuring a safe and delightful experience to our riders.
We’re building a safer future one ride at a time, and I’m thrilled to share that we've just surpassed 100k paid trips per week! Congratulations to the entire @Waymo team on this incredible milestone, and thank you to our riders who make this journey possible.
John Lambert retweeted
Thank you Alphabet, Waymonauts, and, thank you Waymo One riders! This is a testament to the milestones we’ve reached together and the many more to come as we improve road safety and advance the World’s Most Experienced Driver. Cheers!
Alphabet has committed up to $5B to @Waymo. We are grateful for their immense vote of confidence in our team and recognizing the amazing progress we’ve made with our technology, product, and commercialization efforts.
John Lambert retweeted
Highly advise founders to avoid raising around these times:
May-Sep: VCs on summer holiday
Sep-Nov: election uncertainty
Nov-Jan: winter break
Feb-April: ski week/spring break
John Lambert retweeted
After onboarding nearly 300k riders, we’re removing the waitlist and making @Waymo One available to everyone in San Francisco! Nearly 2M paid trips and over 20M fully autonomous miles later, we’re fully open in two cities. Grateful for all your help getting here together. Let’s ride, #SF!
We’re excited to announce that Waymo One is now open to SF riders — no more waitlist or invite codes! This is a key milestone in our mission to be the world’s most trusted driver, & we're thrilled to get more of you where you’re going safely. Ride today. waymo.com/blog/2024/06/waymo…
John Lambert retweeted
Check out CAT3D!
Image(s)-to-3D in 1 minute!
cat3d.github.io
Given any number of real or generated images, CAT3D uses a multi-view diffusion prior to create consistent novel views. These views are used to reconstruct a 3D scene using NeRF/3DGS.
Very excited to get this out. "CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models"
Text->3D, image->3D, and few-view->3D, all in one package. SOTA few-view results, beautiful text results, trains in 1 minute, and renders at 60fps in a browser. cat3d.github.io/
John Lambert retweeted
It’s official: The 2024 Waymo Open Dataset Challenges are now open! 🎉
Researchers have until May 23 to submit their work in our Motion Prediction, Occupancy and Flow Prediction, Sim Agents, and 3D Semantic Segmentation Challenges. Learn more: waymo.com/blog/2024/03/2024-…
John Lambert retweeted
Excited about starting fully-autonomous ops in Austin, our 4th rider-only city, with significant territory right out of the gate. Proud of the @Waymo team for safely unlocking this milestone!
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Leveraging AI for semantic understanding of complex driving scenes is a key capability of the #WaymoDriver. Check out this example of it autonomously interpreting and adhering to a police officer directing traffic in Los Angeles.
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Thank you @Waymo riders for taking over 700,000 trips this year with no human behind the wheel. And to our team who made it happen! Much more work to do to safely scale our tech, but excited to welcome more riders in more places in 2024.
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Today, we’re introducing Waymax, a first-of-its-kind simulator developed specifically for solving autonomous driving research problems around planning and sim agents. Discover how researchers can access Waymax: waymo.com/blog/2023/10/wayma…
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We can now reconstruct 3D humans from single images (forthcoming, ICCV 2023). Model available to try on your images / videos at shubham-goel.github.io/4dhum…
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One of the hardest things in machine learning is to distinguish methodological improvements from better engineering. This makes evaluating research papers extremely difficult since authors have an intrinsic motivation to spend a disproportional effort in tuning their own method.
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MotionDiffuser: Controllable Multi-Agent Motion Prediction using Diffusion
paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2306.0…
present MotionDiffuser, a diffusion based representation for the joint distribution of future trajectories over multiple agents. Such representation has several key advantages: first, our model learns a highly multimodal distribution that captures diverse future outcomes. Second, the simple predictor design requires only a single L2 loss training objective, and does not depend on trajectory anchors. Third, our model is capable of learning the joint distribution for the motion of multiple agents in a permutation-invariant manner. Furthermore, we utilize a compressed trajectory representation via PCA, which improves model performance and allows for efficient computation of the exact sample log probability. Subsequently, we propose a general constrained sampling framework that enables controlled trajectory sampling based on differentiable cost functions. This strategy enables a host of applications such as enforcing rules and physical priors, or creating tailored simulation scenarios. MotionDiffuser can be combined with existing backbone architectures to achieve top motion forecasting results. We obtain state-of-the-art results for multi-agent motion prediction on the Waymo Open Motion Dataset.


























