Hello all! 👋 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨 Code World Models for General Game-Playing. ♟️🎲 ♣️♥️♠️♦️ I am pleased to announce our new paper, which provides an extremely sample-efficient way to create an agent that can perform well in multi-agent, partially-observed, symbolic environments! 🧵 1/N

New blog! Advice about career and creativity for researchers and engineers. This time: What my PhD in computer science taught me about gardening. www.theexclusive.org/2025/07/phd-...

🥁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 the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇

The inkle round-up: - Expelled is out and rocking 80+ on metacritic - A Highland Song is BAFTA nominated… - … and there’s a sweet disc edition coming from @superraregames.bsky.social next week (27th) - still some Heaven’s Vault news to come (not a sequel. Not a remaster) - we’re prototyping

SRG#130: A Highland Song (Switch)

Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music in A Highland Song. Each purchase includes the following...

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I'm happy to advertise an upcoming Student Researcher position on my Agent Frontiers team here at the Google DeepMind Foundational Research Unit, aimed for a start date early in the summer (currently listed as late June, but obviously somewhat flexible).

Happy fifth birthday to my sourdough starter! Their name is Yeasty. I learned to bake as a teenager but mostly lapsed after I grew up. When the pandemic hit, I decided to try again, and when there was no yeast, I decided to try sourdough again.

As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

Yan Matusevich@ymatusik.bsky.social · last yr.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

🌟Job ad🌟 We (@gregdnlp.bsky.social, @mattlease.bsky.social and I) are hiring a postdoc fellow within the CosmicAI Institute, to do galactic work with LLMs and generative AI! If you would like to push the frontiers of foundation models to help solve myths of the universe, please apply!

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI)@nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · last yr.

Seeking candidates (within three years of the award of their PhD) for a postdoctoral position with the Explorable Universe research group to perform research on developing next-generation generative AI copilots & agents to aid astronomy research. Info here www.cosmicai.org/jobs/postdoc...

This is a magnum opus! Highly recommended.

@jacobaustin123.bsky.social · 2y ago

Making LLMs run efficiently can feel scary, but scaling isn’t magic, it’s math! We wanted to demystify the “systems view” of LLMs and wrote a little textbook called “How To Scale Your Model” which we’re releasing today. 1/n

Looking back, I think the presents under the tree, “To: Dad, From: Santa”, in Dad’s distinctively illegible handwriting, may have been his way of telling me.

Manny Voices@itsdrlittle.bsky.social · 2y ago

IF YOU BELIEVED in Santa, at what age did you realize he's not real?

Excited to be able to share what I've been up to recently! We released a new experimental model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, which shows the thoughts/reasoning it uses to come up with its answers. Try it out here! aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_...

We're presenting SWE-agent tomorrow (Wed) at the 11AM poster session, East Exhibit Hall A-C #1000. We're going to talk about a lot of upcoming SWE-agent features. Join @jyangballin @_carlosejimenez @KLieret and me. I also have a bunch of SWE-agent stickers to hand out :)

The extraordinary recent takeover of ML/AI by #NLP is well-known but insufficiently reflected on. Look at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social tutorials in 2024! neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 14 tutorials; 6 have "LLM" in the title; 4 more cover foundation models, with large NLP coverage. That's > 70% 😲

Do you know what rating you’ll give after reading the intro? Are your confidence scores 4 or higher? Do you not respond in rebuttal phases? Are you worried how it will look if your rating is the only 8 among 3’s? This thread is for you.

Benchmarks drive the decision making for large modeling efforts. Here are some great thoughts about how to design good benchmarks!

Ofir Press@ofirpress.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote some thoughts on how to build good LM benchmarks: ofir.io/How-to-Build...

That’s right. You might think that all successful CS academics are good at running. But that’s only because the ones who weren’t, have been eaten by bears.

Sasha Rush@srushnlp.bsky.social · 2y ago

A disproportionate number of sucessful CS academics have some intense cardio hobby. Took me some years to understand.

Starter pack for University of Edinburgh researchers done by the amazing ramandutt4.bsky.social - go.bsky.app/KRNDkN7

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I did an unscientific, uncontrolled experiment for #EMNLP2024—details in 🧵👇. I posted my conference & workshop papers to 5 socials. Clear results: Mastodon is near dead, Threads may have users but not my people, not giving up on X/Twitter yet, but Bluesky is worth investing in.

Our team is looking for an ML hacker extraordinaire. make the TPUs hum with the sound of AGI. Job description: make intelligence = f(compute) unbounded : boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

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Wanted to share that Varun Godbole recently released a prompting playbook. The title says prompt tuning, but this is text prompts, not soft prompts. github.com/varungodbole...

GitHub - varungodbole/prompt-tuning-playbook: A playbook for effectively prompting post-trained LLMs

A playbook for effectively prompting post-trained LLMs - varungodbole/prompt-tuning-playbook

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These are great starter packs! If you like these, you should check out this starter pack of DeepMind researchers: go.bsky.app/GZ4hZzu

Maike Osborne 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@maosbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Hi! Are you new here and looking for more cat accounts to follow? Here is a starter pack I made of cat accounts that use ALT text and are run by real people - no bots or image scrapers! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

Our team has been working hard to harness the power of AI to make software more secure.✨🔐 Today we are excited to share a major milestone: our AI agent has discovered its first real-world security vulnerability! Read here for more: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from...

A black cat crossed my path on Halloween! I think this means I get twice as much good luck!

I used to have a joke about Heraclitus, but I can’t tell it twice

Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have a joke about Procrustes, but I’d have to cut it short

Please vote in the Tues Nov 5 US election, if you are eligible!

pretty good ai starter pack!