From pre-training breakthroughs to leading reasoning + RL work inside Google DeepMind’s Gemini org, Yi Tay has had a front-row seat to how modern LLMs evolved from “scale + objectives” into the on-policy RL era powering today’s reasoning leap. Now he's helping assemble DeepMind’s… pic.twitter.com/JRxIhp0kYg
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From pre-training breakthroughs to leading reasoning + RL work inside Google DeepMind’s Gemini org, Yi Tay has had a front-row seat to how modern LLMs evolved from “scale + objectives” into the on-policy RL era powering today’s reasoning leap. Now he's helping assemble DeepMind’s