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Sr. Staff RS at @GoogleDeepMind. Veo Team. Controllable World Simulators: GNNs, Structured World Models, Neural Assets, Veo References, Veo Robotics

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@tkipf
Thomas Kipf
6 years
My PhD thesis "Deep Learning with Graph-Structured Representations" is now available for download: https://t.co/hyz0cnoewZ -- It covers a range of emerging topics in Deep Learning: from graph neural nets (and graph convolutions) to structure discovery (objects, relations, events)
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@parada_car88104
Carolina Parada
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World models are helping us evaluate #GeminiRobotics generalist policies more effectively, including auto-red-teaming to safely find and address vulnerabilities in the models. Learn more at: https://t.co/Nisxb3UTVY @GoogleDeepMind Robotics
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Project page: Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator.
@Majumdar_Ani
Anirudha Majumdar
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Generalist robots need a generalist evaluator. But how do you test safety without breaking things? 💥 🌎 Introducing our new work from @GoogleDeepMind: Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator https://t.co/ZjvpYXFddZ 🧵👇
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@chris_j_paxton
Chris Paxton
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World models for policy evaluation; the fact that world model performance is highly correlated with real-world performance is incredibly valuable on its own.
@tkipf
Thomas Kipf
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So excited to finally talk about this work! Veo is a surprisingly strong world simulator. We fine-tuned Veo on action-conditioned, multi-view robotics data. Key result: running a policy in the world model is strongly correlated with real-world results. A few important
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Thomas Kipf
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So excited to finally talk about this work! Veo is a surprisingly strong world simulator. We fine-tuned Veo on action-conditioned, multi-view robotics data. Key result: running a policy in the world model is strongly correlated with real-world results. A few important
@Majumdar_Ani
Anirudha Majumdar
3 days
Generalist robots need a generalist evaluator. But how do you test safety without breaking things? 💥 🌎 Introducing our new work from @GoogleDeepMind: Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator https://t.co/ZjvpYXFddZ 🧵👇
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@Hilbe
Chris Hilbert
4 days
Here’s what unexpected scenarios look like in camera, radar, and LiDAR.
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@appenz
Guido Appenzeller
5 days
One hour Waymo ride from San Francisco to Menlo Park via highway 280. It’s over, cars are self-driving. Everything else is just about rolling this out to the rest of the world.
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@wfwhitney
Will Whitney
5 days
Come work with Joe and you’ll sit by me, @poolio, @jon_barron, @RuiqiGao, @holynski_, @tkipf, and many other fine folks!
@joeaortiz
Joe Ortiz
5 days
We’re hiring student researchers at Google DeepMind for 2026. Come work with our great team in SF on anything from diffusion / world models / 3D. Send me an email if you’re interested!
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@tkipf
Thomas Kipf
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Finally got freeway access on Waymo. Going fast in a fully driverless car almost feels as magical as stepping into a Waymo for the first time a bit over a year ago.
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@tkipf
Thomas Kipf
6 days
Liftoff achieved
@Waymo
Waymo
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We’re ready for takeoff! ✈️ Starting today, Waymo employees can take fully autonomous rides to and from @flySFO. ✨ Stay tuned for public rides coming soon!
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@tkipf
Thomas Kipf
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@tkipf
Thomas Kipf
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NeurIPS secret mug club
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@tkipf
Thomas Kipf
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NeurIPS secret mug club
@_beenkim
Been Kim
9 days
Take that @doomie Samy Bengio! Hehehe
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@JeffDean
Jeff Dean
11 days
Gemini 3 Deep Think is now available for Ultra users, making available our IMO & ICPC Gold Medal-winning technology. Deep Think shows improved generalization on difficult benchmarks like ARC-AGI-2, and outperforms Gemini 3 Pro on HLE & GPQA Diamond. We hope this serves as a
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Today, we’re rolling out Gemini 3 Deep Think mode to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app. This new mode delivers a meaningful improvement in reasoning capabili…
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@AleksandraFaust
Aleksandra Faust
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As we work to mitigate the @iclr_conf incident, personal integrity is the only true firewall. The integrity of our science is at stake. Please act responsibly.
@openreviewnet
Open Review
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Initial Analysis of OpenReview API Security Incident
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@tkipf
Thomas Kipf
17 days
I'll be at NeurIPS all week -- reach out if you want to chat! Would love to chat especially if you work on world models (in particular for the physical world / robotics), visual reasoning, or controls for video gen.
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augustus odena
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Just an absolute triumph of technology. Everyone who worked on this should be so proud.
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Thomas Kipf
19 days
Veo 3.1 is embarrassingly compositional
@nmatares
Nick Matarese
19 days
New trick for Nano Banana Pro + @FlowbyGoogle Found this one while I was exploring NB's ability to do sprite sheets yesterday. Step 1: Create a multi-frame sprite sheet / image sequence with Nano Banana pro Step 2: Use that single sheet as an Ingredient for Veo 3.1
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Thomas Kipf
24 days
this is literally quite huge
@Waymo
Waymo
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We're officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State. Next stop: welcoming riders in San Diego in mid-2026! ☀️
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Thomas Kipf
25 days
Character consistency has come a long way! It's such a great compositionality test. And it turns out frontier models are truly "embarassingly compositional".
@koraykv
koray kavukcuoglu
25 days
Gemini 3 Pro 🤝 Nano Banana Pro New SOTA image generation and editing. 🍌Production-ready visuals with improved precision and control 🍌Images grounded in Gemini’s real world understanding 🍌Superior text rendering 🍌Localization in multiple languages 🍌Physically accurate
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