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research scientist @googledeepmind Gemini, large scaling pretraining, multimodal, audio

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Max Bain

@maxhbain

25 days

method #2 to prompt a breakthrough:.run those "what if i just. " / "will it break if . " experiments, purely out of curiosity. the results may surprise you, and give you the clue you need.

Max Bain

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1 year

why does the breakthrough always happen 0-1 days before the deadline.

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i. yes we're still working on Audio Description.ii. come to our workshop in iccv, hawaii.iii. enjoy, surf, ohana.

Junyu Xie

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Movies are more than just video clips, they are stories! 🎬. We’re hosting the 1st SLoMO Workshop at #ICCV2025 to discuss Story-Level Movie Understanding & Audio Descriptions!. Website: Competition:

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Max Bain

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RT @OfficialLoganK: The progress of Gemini over the last year +

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RT @rayisdoingfilm: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTS is pretty crazy. Prompted for both speakers to be opera singers and for one of them to do….

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Max Bain

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RT @AntoineYang2: Thrilled to share our latest advances in video understanding 📽️: Gemini 2.5 Pro is a truly magical model to play with, ex….

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RT @lmarena_ai: 🚨Breaking: @GoogleDeepMind’s latest Gemini-2.5-Pro is now ranked #1 across all LMArena leaderboards 🏆. Highlights:.- #1 in….

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Max Bain

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High leverage happiness per $ activity:.making your daily commute a 20min walk

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Max Bain

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4 months

1) The last 5% is the hardest to write, especially when you didn’t write the first 95%. 2) 99% of these startups are ngmi.

unusual_whales

@unusual_whales

4 months

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has said that for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by AI.

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RT @agihippo: I think people shouldn't do phds anymore. Just focus on hardcore engineering / infra in a big frontier company and branch off….

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Max Bain

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4 months

1 year later and openai finally reimbursed me for interview expenses. Thank you @SoftBank 🫶.

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hedge funds must be printing rn.

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RT @OfficialLoganK: Introducing Ironwood, the first TPU built for the age of inference, and the timing could not be better : ) . - Ironwood….

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We’re introducing Ironwood, our seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed to power the age of generative AI inference.

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RT @OfficialLoganK: Introducing Gemini 2.5 Pro, the world's most powerful model, with unified reasoning capabilities + all the things you l….

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RT @lmarena_ai: BREAKING: Gemini 2.5 Pro is now #1 on the Arena leaderboard - the largest score jump ever (+40 pts vs Grok-3/GPT-4.5)! 🏆. T….

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Max Bain

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RT @karpathy: Agency > Intelligence. I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligen….

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Max Bain

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RT @YiTayML: Something I've realized recently that oftentimes people love to project their career ambitions on other people. For example, s….

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Max Bain

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6 months

+1. After weeks of heavy usage building an iOS app with my brother, claude is still the most useful. Can't do as much in one-shot as some of the newer models but reliability >>>.

Cursor

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6 months

Deepseek models are available now in Cursor! Hosted on US servers. While we're big fans of Deepseek, Sonnet still appears to perform much better on real-world tasks. Enjoy!.

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RT @0x_ale: The rise and fall of London:. - Once the epicentre of global finance.- Now a stagnating city riddled with challenges.- Mass exo….

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Max Bain

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7 months

Grateful for how smooth open-source ML is now — 1-line installs, 2-min setup. Pre 2019 this could sometimes take literally two days.

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Max Bain

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8 months

@MistralAILabs @Sagar_Vaze some bug in pixtral large btw, often times it refuses to talk about an image (probably giving it artificially low scores in benchmarks)

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