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Google DeepMind / Gemini, Hardware Group Product Manager. IET expert panel member. Ex-Android, Glass, Chromcast, equity research, space engineer.

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#google #deepmind #generativeai #techinnovation #teamgoogle | Hoi Lam ๐Ÿ“ˆ Google Q4 earnings: Serving costs down 78%, efficiency up 4.5x. The math behind the AI race. From 750M Gemini App monthly users to ~350 Cloud customers processing over 100 billion tokens each in De...

๐Ÿ“ˆ My thoughts on Google Q4 earnings:

Serving costs down 78%, efficiency up 4.5x. The math behind the AI race.

Compute efficiency is one of the most important metrics in the AI race. Spending smarter, not just more. Huge thanks to the Googlers making this happen! ๐Ÿš€

www.linkedin.com/posts/hoilam...

05.02.2026 13:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How weโ€™re making data centers more flexible to benefit power grids An update on how weโ€™re developing flexible data center capabilities to support power grids and build a sustainable, affordable energy system.

We are still learning and optimising the information flow from our suppliers to our data center team to our users.

I'm really happy that we can contribute to energy resilience for the communities that are working with us. Thank you for your partnership!

blog.google/inside-googl...

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04.08.2025 16:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

AI doesn't need to be zero sum. "Demand response" is one such example. โšก

By partnering with our electric suppliers, we are able to unlock more capacity AND respond to local demand spikes. It's a win-win!

04.08.2025 16:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Try Deep Think in the Gemini app Deep Think utilizes extended, parallel thinking and novel reinforcement learning techniques for significantly improved problem-solving.

More details: blog.google/products/gem...

02.08.2025 16:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿฅณ Introducing Google Gemini 2.5 Deep Think trained on Google TPUs.

Our team pushed SoTA inference compute harder than ever before. It's a variation of the model that won gold in International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) but optimised for day-to-day use.

Now available to Gemini Ultra subscribers.

02.08.2025 16:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk confirms Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion chip contract with Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics shares opened 3.5% higher after the company disclosed the contract to supply semiconductors to a major global corporation.

Tesla going with Samsung is really bad news for Intel.
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/s...

28.07.2025 19:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ™Œ Calling all early-stage founders:

DeepMind and Google Cloud are organizing a startup founders forum in November! It's going to be two full days of technical presentations, feedback sessions, prototyping, demos, and insights into product roadmaps.

๐Ÿ‘‡ Apply below:

blog.google/outreach-ini...

23.07.2025 22:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As AI gets more advanced, interpretability will become an increasingly important part of safety. So congratulations to the team on advancing the SoTA and keeping the results interpretable. Well done!๐Ÿฅณ end/

21.07.2025 22:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad Our advanced model officially achieved a gold-medal level performance on problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the worldโ€™s most prestigious competition for young...

๐Ÿฅ‡ I am so happy to see the Google DeepMind Gemini team **OFFICIALLY** achieved gold-medal performance.

Not only did we get 5 out of 6 questions correct. What's more amazing is the official IMO graders find those answers to be clear, precise and easy to follow! 1/

deepmind.google/discover/blo...

21.07.2025 22:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nvidia chief says UK lacks digital infrastructure as Keir Starmer pledges ยฃ1bn for AI Jensen Huang seeks โ€˜sovereignโ€™ artificial intelligence deals that diversify US chip giantโ€™s business away from Big Tech groups

Personal view: The UK is too small a country to compete with the US and China on its own. 100k AI chips by 2030 is uncompetitive. We need to work with our EU friends if we really want to be "AI makers and not AI takers". #RejoinEU ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

on.ft.com/43RMZ1A

10.06.2025 06:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In celebration of the TACO (Trump Always Chicken Out) trade ๐ŸŒฎ.

๐Ÿ“Chilango, London, UK

31.05.2025 18:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's a wrap for day #4 @aamasconf.bsky.social . I did not present anything today but I am honored that we received the best paper award!

Thanks to everyone who made it happen! ๐Ÿ‘‡ 1/2

23.05.2025 03:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 36 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Terrorism is stupid but this one is extra. The event the couple attended was an inter-faith effort to send humanitarian aid to innocent Palestinians. Now Netanyahu will use this as a cover to hit Gaza harder.๐Ÿ˜ข

Two Israeli embassy staff killed after Washington DC shooting
www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...

22.05.2025 13:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one elseโ€™s

I failed to post this last week, but itโ€™s one of the best op-eds youโ€™ll read all year. Two politicians with *wildly* different orientations but a common thread of belief in the nature of citizenship and nationality. (Theyโ€™re also 100% right obvs.)

on.ft.com/3GS1rPl

19.05.2025 09:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 332 ๐Ÿ” 104 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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Poll: 61% of Israelis fear for democracy, 66% say internal rift is greatest threat Large majority continues to favor ending Gaza war to secure hostages' release, 54% think politics are reason for continued fighting, Channel 12 survey finds

I am saddened by protesters against Israel's entry for #Eurovision.

Israel is not Russia. Israel didn't start the war. More importantly, most Israelis (68%) wants a hostage deal that will end the war.

If we want peace, protest against Netanyahu, not Israel.

www.timesofisrael.com/poll-61-of-i...

16.05.2025 10:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Quick recap on this week's elections:

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Right wing populist defeated.
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Right wing populist defeated.
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Right wing populist screwed up our economy with Brexit, why don't we give them another go?๐Ÿค”

03.05.2025 12:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Breaking: US economy...

30.04.2025 12:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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US economy contracts at 0.3% rate as Trump tariffs prompt import surge Annualised first-quarter figure comes below expectations and contrasts with previous growth

Getting ready for MAGA to reheat all the Brexit arguments that:

a) it's short term pain for long term gain,
b) long term = next month -> next year -> next election -> your children -> your grandchildren -> [repeat] -> heat death of the universe.

www.ft.com/content/104e...

30.04.2025 12:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Congratulations, Canada! I don't know if you could have delivered a stronger rejection to Trump than this. Wow. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

#CanadaStrong

29.04.2025 14:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Or you can get him as your president... or king but not the hands off kind... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

28.04.2025 18:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canadian friends. No matter what Pierre Poilievre said, Trump will interpret every vote for the Conservatives as a vote for Canada to become the 51st state.

If you value your independence, voting Liberal is the only way.

Good luck,
Your friends in Europe
#CanadaStrong

28.04.2025 17:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸปCongratulations Liverpool on the historic win.

BTW that's a Google Pixel 9 Pro!๐Ÿ˜

27.04.2025 21:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Prior to Trump and what he did to Ukraine, I was planning a family holiday in the US. Now I am not...

26.04.2025 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is Brexit but worse. I didn't think it was possible but Trump did it.

26.04.2025 10:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If China asks for all tariffs including for other countries to be dropped, they will be the new world leader.

26.04.2025 10:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heading to Singapore for ICLR ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ

Looking forward to catch up with friends and meet new people. Ping me if you want to chat about watermarking, model merging, Google DeepMind or AI science in general.

Iโ€™d be very happy to meet! ๐Ÿค“

21.04.2025 08:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ™ ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธJust watched a gripping play about business, addiction, and parenting.

Congratulations to the cast and production for Dealer's Choice at the Donmar's Warehouse in London.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Go catch it if you get the chance: www.donmarwarehouse.com/whats-on/194...

18.04.2025 21:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โšก Introducing Ironwood, Google's 7th generation TPU!

Each chip boasts 4,614 FP8 TFLOPS, and the new pod features 9,216 highly connected chips (up from 8,960). Pilot plans are in place, and we can't wait to bring it online this year. Thank you TPU team!

Find out more: blog.google/products/goo...

09.04.2025 15:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am not sure the checks and balances work any more, e.g. signalgate and ignoring court orders for deportation. This is the time of King Trump.

09.04.2025 08:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They put this in a stock filing but not on the ballot paper? Why America? Why?

07.04.2025 09:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0