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Lead of the GenMedia team working on Veo, Imagen, Genie, Nano Banana, ... Research Scientist @ DeepMind
London, England
Joined January 2013
Veo is getting a major upgrade. 🚀 We’re rolling out Veo 3.1, our updated video generation model, alongside improved creative controls for filmmakers, storytellers, and developers - many of them with audio. 🧵
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Made it to no.1 in the App Store. Congrats to the @GeminiApp team for all their hard work, and this is just the start, so much more to come!
Wow, $GOOGL Gemini has overtaken ChatGPT in top downloads in the US on iOS. Something to keep an eye on as ChatGPT has dominated the standings for months now. $GOOGL execution and product shipment showing results…
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I built a browser entirely powered by Nano Banana 🍌 It generates each website based only on the URL. You can even navigate to other links. A truly new kind of internet, generated on the fly, and it's super fun.
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I asked nano banana to take me across Middle-earth and this is what happened... all the details on how I made this video, below 🧵👇
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Pose control with nano-banana is shockingly good. Upload characters + a sketch of a pose and ask to combine. Prompt: "take the anime man and woman in the first image and put them in the poses of the stick man in blue and stick woman in red. erase the stick figures"
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"show me how this map of New Amsterdam 1670 looks like POV when I am standing there in between buildings as a person" 🤯🤯🤯
I asked Nano Banana to "show me how this Area 51 map looks like POV when I am standing there in between buildings as a person" First pics of Area 51 ever? 😂👌 I am not suicidal!
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You know the team has built a good model when ... people go to a website that randomly serves it some of the time 5 million times
🚨🍌Breaking News: Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview (“nano-banana”) by @GoogleDeepMind now ranks #1 in Image Edit Arena. In just two weeks: 🟡“nano-banana” has driven over 5 million community votes in the Arena 🟡Record-breaking 2.5M+ votes casted for this model alone 🟡It has
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The new Gemini 2.5 image model🍌is by far the best out there with a whopping +180 ELO point lead in image editing & it really excels at character consistency. Available for free in the @GeminiApp right now. Try uploading an image & playing around with it, it's pretty amazing!
Image generation with Gemini just got a bananas upgrade and is the new state-of-the-art image generation and editing model. 🤯 From photorealistic masterpieces to mind-bending fantasy worlds, you can now natively produce, edit and refine visuals with new levels of reasoning,
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After Veo 3, Genie 3, Imagen 4, ... we present nano-banana*! 🍌🚀 (*aka Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview)
Image generation with Gemini just got a bananas upgrade and is the new state-of-the-art image generation and editing model. 🤯 From photorealistic masterpieces to mind-bending fantasy worlds, you can now natively produce, edit and refine visuals with new levels of reasoning,
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🚨🍌Breaking News: Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview (“nano-banana”) by @GoogleDeepMind now ranks #1 in Image Edit Arena. In just two weeks: 🟡“nano-banana” has driven over 5 million community votes in the Arena 🟡Record-breaking 2.5M+ votes casted for this model alone 🟡It has
Image generation with Gemini just got a bananas upgrade and is the new state-of-the-art image generation and editing model. 🤯 From photorealistic masterpieces to mind-bending fantasy worlds, you can now natively produce, edit and refine visuals with new levels of reasoning,
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We're setting up a LOAD of TPUs today and warming them up. Ever wanted to try Veo 3 in @GeminiApp?
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Another one. Already a powerful painting, but moving around it yourself gives a totally different feeling. Jacques Louis David's "The Death of Socrates" => #Genie3
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Something fun we discovered: you can use #Genie3 to step into and explore your favorite paintings. Here's a short visit to Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks".
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Genie 3 for when your Veo clip ends too soon. Imagen -> Veo -> Genie 3.
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