Ben Poole

@poolio

ex-google brain and deepmind. phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

San Francisco, CA

poolio.github.io

Joined March 2008

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Ben Poole
@poolio
May 19
Real-world models are here! Stoked to share how we're bringing real-world locations to life by integrating Street View into Genie. Try it now at labs.google/fx/projectgenie and read the blog for more info: blog.google/innovation-and…
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Ben Poole
@poolio
Oct 27
Genie 4 brings realistic dynamics and sound to realtime interactive world models! 🧞🚀🎶 This was the last project I worked on at Google 🥲, and the quality and dynamics are still so much better than the 3D creations from the latest frontier models. Bridging this gap to enable
Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMind
Oct 27
This is Genie 4, our most realistic and interactive world model yet. 🌐 Explore dynamic environments in real time to see how the scene responds, sounds, and how the people in it move, react, and speak.
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Ben Poole
@poolio
Oct 5
Woohoo big congrats to @KarlDeisseroth et al! Optogenetics is such an important tool for neuroscience. I was lucky to start off my PhD working with @logangrosenick @broxtronix and other great folks in the D-lab burning GPUs before it was cool on lightfield microscopy
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Oct 5
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Ben Poole
@poolio
Sep 22
sketch-to-simulation with Opus 5.5
Claude
@claudeai
Sep 22
00:20
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family. It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.
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Ben Poole
@poolio
Sep 17
❤️🚲💑
Matt Redmond
@mttrdmnd
Sep 17
Got married in the park (in a bicycle parade) last weekend and @peterhartlaub put together such a lovely article about it! sfchronicle.com/totalsf/articl…

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