Hernan Moraldo

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

Research Scientist, Generative Media London, UK

We are hiring on the Generative Media team in London: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

We work on Imagen, Veo, Lyria and all that good stuff. Come work with us! If you're interested, apply before Feb 28.

This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model

They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick where if the model tries to stop thinking, they append "Wait" to force it to continue. Near o1 at math. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.19393

A dog wearing a suit, writing a great novel. #veo2

People surround an ancient artifact (with gears and interesting mechanisms) partly buried on the sand. #veo2

Prompt: "Researchers making a new video model." #veo2

Prompt: "An astronaut walks through a planet full of colorful and bizarre alien life." #veo2

More Veo 2 examples

Prompt: "A snail wearing pants. The snail is riding a bicycle, and has a large moustache." #veo2

Following a comment by thelokasiffers in Twitter

Certainly the question of how exactly it's doing this is very interesting

Prompt: "Bear writing the solution to 2x-1=0. But only the solution!"

Prompt: Snail riding a bicycle. The snail has a large moustache.

More Veo 2 examples

Prompt: "A cat wearing a suit and a top hat, while driving a tractor. The tractor has lots of hay on top. Cinematic.!"

A similar example #veo2

Prompt: A tennis ball is on the floor. A bowling ball comes rolling.

Interesting, would be good to check

More Veo physics #Veo2

Prompt: "A large iron ball falls on top of a cardboard box full of coins."

Action scenes (with realistic physics!) with Veo! #veo2

Prompt: "Car going at top speed through a road, until reaching a waterfall. It gets into the waterfall and jumps off a mountain. Cinematic, 35mm film."

Physics with Veo! #veo2

Prompt: One ball is in the floor. Another ball comes rolling.

Prompt: "Soccer of the future, mixing people and robots. This is a fragment from a 2024 cinematic movie!"

Soccer from the future, according to Veo 2 #veo2

Example video generated with Veo #Veo2

Prompt: The camera follows an octopus flying through a city with very high skyscrapers. A sign says "Veo". Cinematic, 35mm film released in 2024.

Veo v2 generates a meeting of animals #Veo2

Prompt: A meeting of a lion, a bear and a giraffe, all of them wearing suits. Photorealistic, cinematic.

Veo 2 Veo is our state-of-the-art video generation model. It creates high quality video clips that match the style and content of a user's prompts, in resolutions up to 4K resolution.

Proud to see the release of Veo V2! deepmind.google/technologies...

"Veo has achieved state of the art results in head-to-head comparisons of outputs by human raters over top video generation models"

Veo in the Google DeepMind booth

At Neurips!

Yeah, I had multiple hardware, driver and miscellaneous issues as well. I haven't moved to Mac yet (for my personal computer), would prefer not to, but who knows

Same experience with two Dell Linux laptops so far...

Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.

Fascinating account of the history of attention, as told by Dzmitry Bahdanau to Andrej Karpathy x.com/karpathy/sta...

YouTube video by Drumeo Megadeth Drummer Hears "Mr. Brightside" For The First Time

I love the notations and methods people in different fields invent for their work. For example the Megadeth drummer: "I developed a method for, when listening to a song for the first time, just count, name the parts, count the bars, and (...) have the structure" (youtu.be/tbUYVcaF_l0?... at 2:35)

I understand he designed it, at least the visual aspect. Though the time travelling aspect may already be in the novel, I don't know