Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

Ep 87: Gemini Co-Lead on World Models, RL's Next Domains & Continual Learning

May 22, 2026·59 min·6-min readinterviewtechnology
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Oriol Vinyals, co-lead of Google's Gemini project, discusses the frontier of AI development, emphasizing world models as a path to AGI, the growing role of memory and reasoning in agents, and the importance of broad training for generalization. He believes current models are impressively

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Oriol Vinyals

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Oriol VinyalsJacob EffronNoam ShazeerJeff DeanDemis Hassabis

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GoogleDeepMindAnthropicOpenAI

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GeminiSparkTPU

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Unsupervised Machine Translation

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Artificial IntelligenceDeep LearningFuture Of WorkLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningResearchRoboticsTech Industry

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