I did get some disarming glances. Fortunately they grow back.
@jeffdean
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Google TPU Evolution: SeaStar to JellyFish Hardware Journey
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Amin Vahdat and I gave a brief presentation about the origin and development of Google's TPUs over ~a decade at this week's Google TGIF meeting. Presenter costumes were encouraged, so I went as a SeaStar (codename for TPUv1 ) & Amin went as a JellyFish (codename for TPUv2).
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Research AI Model for Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Development
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To be clear, this is a research model not yet deployed for the production vehicle fleet.
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Waymo’s EMMA: End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Vehicles
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A really nice paper by some of my Alphabet colleagues at Waymo about EMMA, the End-to-End Multimodal model that underlies much of the capabilities of the @Waymo cars. https://
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Sudanese Student Journey: MIT, Apple, Georgia Tech to Startup
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Who doesn't love a good "talented Sudanese student comes to the US, improves English, develops coding proficiency, goes to college, spends summers at MIT and Apple, hours to great school at Georgia Tech, struggles like all of us during Covid, and lands full time job at startup
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Sudanese Student’s Tech Career Journey: MIT, Apple, Georgia Tech
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Who doesn't love a good "talented Sudanese student comes to the US, improves English, develops coding proficiency, goes to college, spends summers at MIT and Apple, hours to great school at Georgia Tech, struggles like all of us during Covid, and lands full time job at startup
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Google Brain Spinout Osmo Achieves Digital Scent Manipulation
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This is really great to see, and congrats, @awiltschko and the entire Osmo team! Being able to digitally manipulate scent is amazing! (The research work underpinning this was done by Alex and a few others in Google Brain before we decided to spin it out as a separate entity.
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Gemini Expansion: 7 Google Products Reach 2 Billion Users
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Really great to see Gemini being used in so many places across Google (7 products with 2B+ users and many more besides!). Congrats to the entire Gemini team and our partners across Google!
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Machine Learning Research in Healthcare and Fairness
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@2plus2make5 has done really interesting work on machine learning, including work on its use in healthcare, and also in fairness in the ways it is applied to real world problems. If you're interested in these topics and are looking for a group in which to do your PhD see !
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Illustrated Guide to Transformers, LLMs, and Advanced Techniques
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This book is really nicely illustrated! Nearly every page has multiple figures/diagrams that help explain the underlying concepts behind transformers & LLMs, including embeddings, attention, LoRA, distillation, quantization, … Nice work, @afshinea and @shervinea ! x.com/afshinea/statu…