Brent Dance

I'm a #girldad and a #boydad. I also like social impact & tech.

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

"Love undergirds everything else; without love other gifts don't really matter." [N. Maxwell]

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

@FOXSoccer corrected .... https://t.co/oFn575jhw0

"When Egypt GK pushed up, the lone Egypt defender at top right became last opponent.

"B/c GK was higher up than lone defender, GK became 2nd to last opponent and legally established offside line."

Bummer. Was rooting for Iran.

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

@FOXSoccer Last defender kept him onside. That was a goal.

[Stripe @stripe]

Introducing streaming payments.

Track tokens in real-time with Metronome.
Collect payments in real-time with Tempo.
Get paid for every token as it’s burned.

[Rami Banna @mrramibanna]

Mission accepted: https://t.co/iftFXm0pQM

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

@FidelCacheFlow Desperado

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

@ankurnagpal Tax miracles, yes please

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

For us, the people.

[Dr. Jon Slotkin @slotkinjr]

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States

@Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on.

39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility.

We don’t have to.

In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.

In driving, we’re all the control group.

Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress.

It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives.

Link to article below.

👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view.

My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

.new all the things

[Sam Sheffer @samsheffer]

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[Sam Sheffer @samsheffer]

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[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

Holy shit. I’ve used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I’m not going back. The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video… everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again. ❤️ 🤖 https://t.co/HruXhc16Mq

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Geminiii

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

@patrickc Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, California?

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

In the future soon, we will be able to communicate with many intelligent animal species - can't wait to better understand what my dog🐶is saying! Congrats to the DolphinGemma team building on our Gemma models - the most powerful single GPU/TPU open source models out there!

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

(obvious, I know, just feels different now) Language is code. Humans are computers, computers are more human. It's all becoming one.

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

@elijah1crawford Stay!

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

@OreIdaPotatoes Tot tot, hate not

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

@kan0e12 @TahoeWeather Good question. Also curious

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

Travel helps me focus.

"It's a good reminder that what's lacking in life is not time. It's focus. If you're working on what matters, you can advance leaps and bounds...if you're just clearing the slog, you can spend a lifetime staying in the same place." @dwarkesh_sp

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Notes on visiting China.

On scale, construction, youngsters, public opinion, censorship, tech, and AI.

Link below.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

It’s been an amazing last couple of weeks, hope you enjoyed our end of year extravaganza as much as we did!

Just some of the things we shipped: state-of-the-art image, video, and interactive world models (Imagen 3, Veo 2 & Genie 2); Gemini 2.0 Flash (a highly performant and efficient foundation model); Gemini-Exp-1206 model (top of the Chatbot Arena leaderboard); 2.0 Flash Thinking (our first ‘thinking’ model, expect a lot more news on this soon - as many of you remember, we pioneered this type of model with AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaProof…); upgrades to @GeminiApp with Deep Research and more, fantastic new NotebookLM features, a new image remixing tool (Whisk); and a series of agentic research prototypes that can help people get things done (Project Astra, Mariner, Jules) all built on Gemini 2.0.

And then on top of all of that, we dropped the world’s most accurate weather prediction model (GenCast), the world’s most advanced quantum chip that performed a computation that would have taken 10 septillion years (Willow - could come in handy for training AI one day!), and it was the honour of a lifetime to receive the Nobel Prize for AlphaFold, which has revolutionised structural biology and is being used by 2 million researchers around the world to understand disease and accelerate drug discovery.

I could not be more proud of all the exceptionally talented teams at @GoogleDeepMind & @Google who have worked so incredibly hard on all these amazing projects. It’s the greatest joy one can have professionally to get to explore the outer reaches of science and human knowledge with such wonderful colleagues.

We’ve been inventing the future of AI for well over a decade now, and we’ll continue to be a relentless engine of innovation. In many ways we’re only just getting started… if you want to be at the frontier of the most exciting scientific and technological journey ever, this is the place to be, come join us!

[Brent Dance @BrentDance]

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