Jeff Dean(@JeffDean)

Very sorry to hear this news. 😥 I never had the chance to meet Margaret Hamilton, but her contribu...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:51:52 GMT

Very sorry to hear this news. 😥

I never had the chance to meet Margaret Hamilton, but her contributions to the flight software that got us to the moon are legendary.  I love this image of her standing next to the printouts of the Apollo code.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT

We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-…

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Proud to have collaborated with many others on quite a few of these things!

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:25:23 GMT

Proud to have collaborated with many others on quite a few of these things!

Deedy@deedydas

claude just generated this 2 minute video about the history of Google and it goes so goddamn hard

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The safety data for Waymo gets better and better. Comparison w/ human drivers on rate of crashes ...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:31:17 GMT

The safety data for Waymo gets better and better.  

Comparison w/ human drivers on rate of crashes with serious injury:

Latest data: 270M miles, 20X better 
Mar 2026: 170M miles, 13X better
Before that (forget exactly when): 10X better

Waymo@Waymo

270M+ miles. 841 fewer injury-causing crashes.

Our latest safety data shows the Waymo Driver continues to make roads safer for everyone. 

Compared to human drivers across 5 territories, it reduced:
📉 Injury crashes by 82%
📉 Serious injury crashes by 95%

Full datawaymo.com/safety/impactS5

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This was recorded a few months ago when I was still at Google and it was a really fun conversation!

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:34:28 GMT

This was recorded a few months ago when I was still at Google and it was a really fun conversation!

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Did you know you can learn interesting things from computations in real rat neurons? I love what @A...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:40:09 GMT

Did you know you can learn interesting things from computations in real rat neurons?  I love what @AlexKsendzovsky and team are doing at @BioComputingCo are doing.

Alex Ksendzovsky@AlexKsendzovsky

What happens when neurons meet silicon? A new world emerges. 

Partnering with Amazon to bring it to customers. DM me for early access.

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Thanks for the great discussion, @dawnsongtweets!

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:43:56 GMT

Thanks for the great discussion, @dawnsongtweets!

Dawn Song@dawnsongtweets

I had the great honor and pleasure of sitting down with @JeffDean for his first public talk since leaving Google, where he spent an extraordinary 27 years.

Few people have shaped modern computing and AI as profoundly - from MapReduce and Bigtable to TensorFlow, Mixture-of-Experts, TPUs, and Gemini.

Our conversation covered some of the biggest questions shaping the future of AI:

• How do you recognize a foundational idea before everyone else does?
• How do you choose a research problem worth spending 5 years on?
• What can coding teach us about building better reasoning models?
• What might recursive self-improvement (RSI) actually look like?
• What happens when the scientific discovery loop itself becomes increasingly automated? (and how is Jeff’s new startup going to contribute in this space?)
• As AI becomes increasingly autonomous, how do we keep it safe and secure?
• What should the next generation of researchers be working on?

Here are some key insights and highlights for anyone building the future of AI. 🧵1/8

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Exciting results, @LiamFedus! Congrats to the whole team at Periodic Labs!

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:05:42 GMT

Exciting results, @LiamFedus!  Congrats to the whole team at Periodic Labs!

Liam Fedus@LiamFedus

We built high-throughput materials labs in Menlo Park to create a loop between experiments and models. The labs generate fresh data, the models learn from it, and then help us decide what to try next.

Using only 1,300 H200s, plus months of our experimental data, we mid-trained and RL’d an open-source model to surpass GPT-6 Astra on our analysis benchmark. We call it Neon.

This is real footage from our lab. We’re focusing first on hard problems in materials science, including superconductors, magnets, and semiconductor materials.

Read our blog posts below.

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@zacharylipton That's a pretty penne

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:22:51 GMT

@zacharylipton That's a pretty penne

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@dtran320 It's also fun to run commute when visiting other locations. I often stayed in a hotel not...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:59:09 GMT

@dtran320 It's also fun to run commute when visiting other locations.  I often stayed in a hotel not-too-close and not-too-far (in the Goldilocks zone!) from a Google office & would run commute during my visit.  I've done this in Singapore, London, Zürich, NY, Santa Monica, Accra, ...

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@chhaviyadav_ Soccer (2 games/wk in my 25-and-over league), gym 2x/wk, yoga 2x/wk, run to work 3-4 d...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:20:55 GMT

@chhaviyadav_ Soccer (2 games/wk in my 25-and-over league), gym 2x/wk, yoga 2x/wk, run to work 3-4 directions/wk (8k each way), bike to work 3-4 directions/wk (8k each way), longer run or bike on weekend.

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And the final couple

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:44:34 GMT

And the final couple

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This slide was a build of a bunch of pieces, with some more pictures and context in the intermediate...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:43:00 GMT

This slide was a build of a bunch of pieces, with some more pictures and context in the intermediate parts

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Indeed, it has been quite a week, so I thought I'd share it with the KDD 2026 audience! For my Goog...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:49:34 GMT

Indeed, it has been quite a week, so I thought I'd share it with the KDD 2026 audience!  For my Google colleagues who might have sent me internal chat messages after I closed my laptop for a final time on Thursday afternoon, I apologize for my lack of response!

(Zoomed in)

Dhruv Kuchhal@kuchhal_dhruv

Legendary! Thanks for sharing the behind-the-scenes @JeffDean!

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@jenzhuscott Thank you for the kind words, @jenzhuscott!

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:24:07 GMT

@jenzhuscott Thank you for the kind words, @jenzhuscott!

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That day was super fun, @gabepereyra! Thanks for inviting me! What you didn't happen to mention wa...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:51:47 GMT

That day was super fun, @gabepereyra!  Thanks for inviting me!

What you didn't happen to mention was that it wasn't just a normal USC club soccer team practice session, but actually was tryouts day.  So there were like 80 skilled undergrads there, all eager to make the team.  So it was divided up into a bunch of small-sided 7v7 games.  I like to think 45-year-old me kind of held my own, but I'm sure everyone was thinking "Who's the old guy playing in our 7v7 match?" 😅

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@iScienceLuvr @SophontAI You're all doing amazing stuff! Keep it up! I'm delighted to be along for...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:50:24 GMT

@iScienceLuvr@SophontAI You're all doing amazing stuff!  Keep it up!  I'm delighted to be along for the ride.

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Turned it in...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:32:44 GMT

Turned it in...

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Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,00...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:20:06 GMT

Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time.  As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!).  Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy.  It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems.  I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!  

Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.

(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)

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Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,00...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:43:43 GMT

Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time.  As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!).  Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy.  It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems.  I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment!

Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!  Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and 
@quocleix.

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One more fun slide from our pitch deck.

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:43:36 GMT

One more fun slide from our pitch deck.

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Our immediate order of business is to find office space, and hire an amazing founding team over the ...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:13:37 GMT

Our immediate order of business is to find office space, and hire an amazing founding team over the next few weeks. We want to create an awesome environment with a great culture of technical excellence, teamwork, respect, and ambition.  We’ll also start building our infrastructure and AI models and systems to tackle our first domain: automating large-scale experimentation for ML research and engineering.  In doing so, we’re going to be our own first customers.  The rapid feedback from doing that is the way to build something amazing.

Oh, we’re hiring! See discoveryloop.com

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We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experie...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:12:35 GMT

We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experience!). Here’s a few slides about our background and some of the things we’ve worked on from the pitch deck (it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have gone on to found a whole range of exciting companies). We are delighted to have selected @radicalvcfund 
and @khoslaventures to lead our initial funding round, along with participation from @lightspeedvp, @kleinerperkins, Doerr Capital (@johndoerr), and Alphabet (@Google).  We’ll be working with them to close our seed round over the next few weeks.

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Our general approach is to automate the experimental loop. We think this approach is broadly applica...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:09:35 GMT

Our general approach is to automate the experimental loop. We think this approach is broadly applicable across many different fields of science and engineering. We’ll initially focus on ML research and engineering, but believe the approach can help with important subproblems in nearly every one of the fourteen <at>NAE Grand Challenge problems. We think doing this well requires strong expertise in machine learning as well as large-scale systems.

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Announcing Discovery Loop! I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and ...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:06:02 GMT

Announcing Discovery Loop! 

I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor.

♾

Learn more at: discoveryloop.com

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Oh look! My longtime friend and colleague @Sanjay_Ghemawat is now on Twitter! Give him a follow!

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:07:17 GMT

Oh look!  My longtime friend and colleague @Sanjay_Ghemawat is now on Twitter!  Give him a follow!

Jeff Dean@JeffDean

In April, '17, @jsomers of @NewYorker reached out & said he wanted to do a small profile of me & my longtime colleague Sanjay Ghemawat, watch us work for a few hours, maybe dinner, etc.

It came out today. I think it captures our working style really well. https://t.co/cRSMiFfwAP

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Thanks for an engaging conversation at @ChaseCenter last weekend, @sdianahu! My first in a basketb...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:39:20 GMT

Thanks for an engaging conversation at @ChaseCenter  last weekend, @sdianahu!  My first in a basketball arena!

Y Combinator@ycombinator

In 2001, @JeffDean and Sanjay Ghemawat did the math and realized Google’s entire search index would fit in RAM — then shipped it in a few days, and search got fast. 

In 2013, another napkin calculation showed that three minutes of daily speech recognition per user would require doubling Google’s server fleet. That one became the TPU. 

At Startup School 2026, Google’s Chief Scientist talks with YC’s @sdianahu through the thought experiments behind both, why inference hardware is the next specialization, and where two or three people in a room can still win.

07 — Are AI Models Already Junior Engineers?
44 — AI Systems That Improve Themselves
40 — The Google Search Breakthrough That Changed Everything
38 — AI Agents Will Run for Weeks
58 — The Napkin Math That Led to TPUs
20 — How to Find Breakthrough Ideas
25 — The AI Engineer's New Mental Model
33 — Why AI Is Really an Energy Problem
11 — Context Engineering Is the Next Frontier
46 — The Skill That Made AI Better at Optimization
13 — Why Long-Running Agents Fail
21 — Where Startups Can Still Beat Google
19 — How to Become an AI-Native Founder
36 — Question Your Biggest Assumptions
08 — AI That Builds Better AI
02 — Build Something That Truly Matters

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@ceo_clickhouse @ClickHouseDB @FulhamFC Nice! Congrats! And it is true, @ceo_clickhouse is indeed ...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:42:41 GMT

@ceo_clickhouse@ClickHouseDB@FulhamFC Nice!  Congrats!  And it is true, @ceo_clickhouse is indeed a true football/soccer lover and player: he and I face off against each other regularly in the soccer league we play in!

I've been to a game at the renovated Craven Cottage and it is quite nice!

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A nice aspect of our new Gemini 3.6 Flash model is that it is much more token efficient than our 3.5...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:37:20 GMT

A nice aspect of our new Gemini 3.6 Flash model is that it is much more token efficient than our 3.5 Flash model.   Here's a side-by-side demonstration of that.

Nice work by everyone who worked on this model and release!

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Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind

We’re rolling out three new models to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale:

🔵 Gemini 3.6 Flash: It uses fewer tokens than 3.5 Flash to deliver higher quality work at the exact same cost.

🔵 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: A fast, cost-effective option for everyday tasks like processing documents and agentic search.

🔵 Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber: A cybersecurity model built to find and patch critical software vulnerabilities.

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Yesterday I was fortunate enough to go to my first-ever World Cup game, with my long-time colleagues...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:21:30 GMT

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to go to my first-ever World Cup game, with my long-time colleagues/friends @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix and their spouses).  We were sitting in the corner area and had a quite good view of the goal!

I present to you a 43 second multi-part drama filled with emotion:

The initial promising-looking cross coming in, but looking overhit

Nico Williams cleverly knocking it down at the back post into a dangerous area

Ferran Torres striking it cleanly into the roof of the net

The crowd rising as one (forcing me to stand up as well)

The elation of the Spanish players racing off the bench to celebrate

The dejection of the Argentinian players, their defense having finally been breached in extra time

The elation of my Spanish colleague Oriol and his wife Meire next to me (he and I are both Barça fans, so it was nice to see a Barça player score the winning goal)

The entire stadium reacting

Whew!

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The video from the commencement speech I gave a couple of weeks ago at @uwcse is now up. Congratula...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:22:11 GMT

The video from the commencement speech I gave a couple of weeks ago at @uwcse is now up.  Congratulations again to all the graduates, and thanks for having me, @MBalazinska!

youtu.be/Pvkmwh7Mito?si… (video is of whole ceremony: my part starts around the 3 minute mark)

Jeff Dean@JeffDean

I enjoyed giving the commencement address at the University of Washington Allen School @uwcse graduation this evening.  So many happy students and their families and friends!

Congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 2026! 🎓

Thanks for inviting me, @MBalazinska!

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My @Google colleagues @NormJouppi, Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Cliff Young, and David Patterson recentl...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:51:38 GMT

My @Google colleagues @NormJouppi, Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Cliff Young, and David Patterson recently wrote a paper that will appear in the July/August 2026 edition of @ieeemicro titled "Google's Training Supercomputers from TPU v2 to Ironwood: Architectural Stability, Scale, Resilience, Power Efficiency, and Sustainability Across Five Generations".  It's chock full of interesting data about the evolution of TPU chip generations, as well as how workloads at Google have transformed over time (hint: lots more transformer-based models!), and how the generations have gotten ~30X more energy efficient per flop.

Lots of changes over these generations:
Air cooling in TPUv2 to water cooling in TPUv3 onwards
2D to 3D torus-based interconnects
30X improvement TFLOPS/Watt 
256 chips (TPUv2) to 9216 chips (Ironwood) per pod

Read the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.15870

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I really enjoyed this game today. Vozinha and the whole Cape Verde team were amazing against Spain!

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:36:00 GMT

I really enjoyed this game today.  Vozinha and the whole Cape Verde team were amazing against Spain!

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A good essay by @pgasawa and @profjoeyg on a more nuanced view of AI advances.

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:36:25 GMT

A good essay by @pgasawa and @profjoeyg on a more nuanced view of AI advances.

Parth Asawa@pgasawa

The AI community seems to increasingly be heading towards a polarized world when discussing safety and consolidated power. I see this discourse as a false dichotomy, so @profjoeyg and I wrote an essay on how we need to change the conversation (link below).

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@uwcse @MBalazinska Here's a nice @GeekWire article by @ToddBishop about the graduation, including a...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:47:13 GMT

@uwcse@MBalazinska Here's a nice @GeekWire article by @ToddBishop about the graduation, including a few more snippets of what I said in my talk.

geekwire.com/2026/what-a-lo…

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@uwcse @MBalazinska Here are a few of the pieces of advice that I shared:

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:14:48 GMT

@uwcse@MBalazinska Here are a few of the pieces of advice that I shared:

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I enjoyed giving the commencement address at the University of Washington Allen School @uwcse gradua...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:04:10 GMT

I enjoyed giving the commencement address at the University of Washington Allen School @uwcse graduation this evening.  So many happy students and their families and friends!

Congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 2026! 🎓

Thanks for inviting me, @MBalazinska!

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People replace their phones every ~4 yrs. This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones d...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:17:25 GMT

People replace their phones every ~4 yrs.  This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones discarded each year that are still perfectly usable as computing devices.  @Google in collabration with @UCSD is exploring how to turn these old phones into cloud-computing “phone clusters”.  Putting phones back in service in this way can directly reduce the environmental footprint of computing by avoiding the need for further raw material extraction, and taking advantage of the embodied carbon already incurred from manufacturing these devices, and modern phones actually are already quite powerful computers.  Read more in the blog below ⬇️

Google Research@GoogleResearch

Today on the blog, we discuss a pathway for the second life of phones through the exploration of “phone cluster computing”, which can directly reduce the environmental footprint of computing by avoiding the need for further raw material extraction. More →goo.gle/4aJe5vO

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Quite interesting thread on capabilities of real biological neurons (spoiler: they're way more capab...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:30:06 GMT

Quite interesting thread on capabilities of real biological neurons (spoiler: they're way more capable than classical artificial neurons in a perceptron) .  Nice work @IdoAizenbud and collaborators!

Ido Aizenbud@IdoAizenbud

What can a neuron compute?

Real biological neurons are complex, but how capable are they?

Using a new method, we found that a single cortical neuron can classify cats vs dogs, recognize spoken words, and solve 10-bit parity, all tasks thought to require entire networks. (1/15)

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Denying entry to a Somali soccer official selected as one of the World Cup referees is quite shamefu...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:59:34 GMT

Denying entry to a Somali soccer official selected as one of the World Cup referees is quite shameful. The whole point of the World Cup is as a spirited athletic competition that brings us together, and allowing him to officiate is obviously the right thing to do.

BBC Sport@BBCSport

Somali referee Omar Artan, who was set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup finals, has been denied entry to the United States.

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Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:34:42 GMT

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Speech translation has been one of the longest-running ML efforts at Google, and we’ve come a long w...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:34:13 GMT

Speech translation has been one of the longest-running ML efforts at Google, and we’ve come a long way.  Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is our latest speech-to-speech model, supporting 70+ languages.  It enables more natural conversations across languages in everyday products and apps.

Here’s an example of how partners at @InsideGrab are helping connect travelers with drivers. 🚗

Rolling out in Google Translate and via the Live API in @GoogleAIStudio.

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Congratulations, Ayanna Howard @robotsmarts! Spelman has made an excellent choice to have you as it...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:07:03 GMT

Congratulations, Ayanna Howard @robotsmarts!  Spelman has made an excellent choice to have you as its next president!

Spelman College@SpelmanCollege

Today, Spelman College proudly announces Dr. Ayanna Howard as its 12th President. This historic transition marks the next chapter in Spelman's legacy of excellence, empowering future generations of Black women to lead, innovate, and shape a rapidly changing world. A pioneering roboticist and higher education leader, Dr. Howard brings a bold vision for Spelman's future while honoring the mission and values that have defined the College for more than 140 years. Read more: spelman.edu/news/2026/06/s…

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Check out our Gemma 4 12B model: it's a super capable open weights model that can run directly on yo...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:00:37 GMT

Check out our Gemma 4 12B model: it's a super capable open weights model that can run directly on your laptop.

Google Gemma@googlegemma

Meet Gemma 4 12B!

A unified, encoder-free multimodal model designed to bring high-performance intelligence directly to your laptop, and released under an Apache 2.0 license.

Bridging the gap between edge efficiency and advanced reasoning. Here is what’s new with Gemma 4 12B: 👇

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This is great to see. The scientific community & the general public should be in the habit of c...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:46:41 GMT

This is great to see.  The scientific community & the general public should be in the habit of celebrating amazing scientific achievements with standing ovations 🎉

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Thanks for a great @twominutepapers conversation, Károly!

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:08:56 GMT

Thanks for a great @twominutepapers conversation, Károly!

Two Minute Papers@twominutepapers

It was really fun to chat with the legendary @JeffDean. I asked him about things that only he may know the answer to. 🙂 Link to full video in thread.

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I enjoyed this chat immensely with @OfficialLoganK and my fellow Gemini leads @OriolVinyalsML and @N...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:39:16 GMT

I enjoyed this chat immensely with @OfficialLoganK and my fellow Gemini leads @OriolVinyalsML and @NoamShazeer and @koraykv.

Logan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganK

My conversation with @JeffDean, @koraykv, @NoamShazeer, and @OriolVinyalsML (the Gemini co-leads) about the current state of Gemini, how we got here, and where we go next : )

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Four questions in under 2 minutes. Thanks to Google's social team for suggesting this little interlu...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:17:12 GMT

Four questions in under 2 minutes. Thanks to Google's social team for suggesting this little interlude at #googleio yesterday!

Google@Google

4 questions with @JeffDean (Chief Scientist, Google and one of the authors of the famous "cat paper" about unsupervised learning and neural networks in 2012) in under 2 minutes at #GoogleIO:

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Highly capable models that are fast are super important. Our new Gemini 3.5 Flash model is a great ...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:43:59 GMT

Highly capable models that are fast are super important.  Our new Gemini 3.5 Flash model is a great mix of fast and capable.

Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai

Just off stage at #GoogleIO, some highlights from this morning 🧵

Gemini 3.5 Flash is available today for everyone in @antigravity and across our products and APIs.

Compared to 3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash is better across almost all benchmarks with huge progress in coding. It’s also comparable to the best models but very fast (4x faster tokens/ second than other frontier models). And when looking at the intelligence versus output speed, it’s in a league of its own in the top right quadrant.

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Beautiful day at #GoogleIO packed full of Gemini announcements, with my Gemini team colleagues @Orio...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:27:50 GMT

Beautiful day at #GoogleIO packed full of Gemini announcements, with my Gemini team colleagues @OriolVinyalsML and @borgeaud_s!

Take a sip of water every time you hear "Gemini"!

Oriol Vinyals@OriolVinyalsML

This is my third Google I/O in a row. Some things have changed, some (like the amazing colleagues that were there since day 0) haven't. @JeffDean@borgeaud_s

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3/ Gemini 3.5 Flash is rolling out globally today. On behalf of the entire Gemini team, we're excit...

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:49:55 GMT

3/ Gemini 3.5 Flash is rolling out globally today.  On behalf of the entire Gemini team, we're excited by what you'll be able to do with this model!

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