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PM on Foundation Models, AI personalization, coding agents @Google. Prev. early Gemini, Google Brain, TPU. Side project https://xitter.gq/t.co/SeUfhnquFt.

SF Bay Area, CA
Joined April 2011
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Lots of discussion out there about our next model(!), so I wanted to give an early look as soon as possible. Introducing Gemini 4 Argon! It shows frontier performance in complex workflows, cyber defense and software engineering. Teams are using it extensively at Google, from coding to quantum computing, great feedback. Here’s a look at the benchmarks:
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Gemini 3.7 Flash smashed previous Gemini growth records in its first week, making it our fastest growing model yet. Great to see the huge excitement from our developer community! Now running in Search and @Geminiapp too.
Gemini 3.7 Flash from @Google on ARC-AGI (Verified): - ARC-AGI-2: 84.6%, $0.25/task - ARC-AGI-1: 95.5%, $0.12/task Gemini 3.7 Flash stands out for its low cost and high scores on ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 relative to other frontier models.
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Today we're launching Gemini 3.7 Flash - our latest workhorse model for coding and agentic workflows, with an introductory price at half the original cost of 3.6 Flash. ⚡️ We have been iterating rapidly with the Flash series, going from 3.5 to 3.7 in just 3 months, making it more helpful across a wide range of tasks: • Software Engineering (DeepSWE v1.1): 37.0% ➔ 65.3% • Web Development (Code Arena Elo): 1506 ➔ 1588 • Enterprise Automation (AutomationBench): 13.4% ➔ 30.4%
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there comes a time in every man’s life where they realize they weren’t an investing genius and actually underperformed the S&P
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For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
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The PaLM language model paper is now officially published at JMLR. jmlr.org/papers/v24/22-1144.…
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OPINION: For S.F. to survive the challenges we face, we need to redefine our urban landscape by drawing inspiration from successful cities like Tokyo. trib.al/RP92WMO
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We collaborated with Bard, an AI experiment by @Google, to optimize your coding workflow. When you use Bard to help with coding, you can now export Python code to Replit. In your Repl, you can edit or test it to bring your ideas to life. Try it out → goo.gle/44HGpJH
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Paper: TPUv4 system has an optically reconfigurable network to assemble groups of 4x4x4 chips like legos (4x4x12? 16x16x16?). SparseCores help w/ embeddings. TPUv4 outperforms TPUv3 by 2.1x & perf/W by 2.7x, & has 4096 chips so ~10x faster overall. .arxiv.org/abs/2304.01433#
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I don’t think a regular person appreciates how insane it is that computers work. I propose we stare at each other mind-blown for about 1 hour/day, in small groups in circles around a chip on a pedestal, appreciating that we can coerce physics to process information like that.
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When you're working on a project—big or small—it's inevitable that you'll find yourself stuck from time to time. You’re staring at a half-completed page or screen—completely paralyzed. We've all been there. Here's my very simple framework for getting unstuck:
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Eat like a lion, work like a lion, feel like a lion, live like a lion.
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Turns out a lot of people win simply because they refuse to lose
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was the $14M superbowl ad worth it for coinbase? some quick n dirty math
As always @ShaanVP @MilkRoadDaily has a great (and entertaining) analysis of #CryptoBowl They estimate that @coinbase got 500k new customers (in 1 day)... What’s 500k customers worth to Coinbase? Does that cover the $14M spent on the ad?  Short answer: Yes.
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@JeffDean's terrific keynote at DAC 2021, "The Potential for Machine Learning for Hardware Design," features the work of many Googlers, including our work on FAST. The entire talk is worth watching in full; FAST is discussed between 30:51 - 39:45 (4/4) youtube.com/watch?v=FraDFZ2t…
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The only button a microwave needs is “+30” seconds. - Steve Jobs
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This is sweet 🥧 ! arxiv.org/abs/2202.01197 Finally a solid way of of teaching a neural network to know what it does not know. (OOD = Out Of Domain, i.e. not one of the classes in the training data.) Congrats @SharonYixuanLin @xuefeng_du @MuCai7
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When working cross-functionally, PMs should strike a balance like a good tour guide: you don’t want your tour guide to order you around — and you definitely don’t want your tour guide to just follow you around either. (adapted from a great analogy in Think Again by Adam Grant)
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