Adam Roberts

Principal Scientist @ Google DeepMind
:: 🌈psychedelic ai
:: 📝 Foundational LLM work: TL for T5 & C4, core PaLM
:: 👨‍💻 TL for T5x & SeqIO

[Adam Roberts @ada_rob]

Introducing Magenta RealTime, our open weights live music model!

Like Lyria RealTime, this model provides the user continuous control of the musical flow 🌊.

We will be sharing some of our favorite ways to extend these models over the next few weeks. Can't wait to see what you do!

[Chris Donahue @chrisdonahuey]

Excited to announce 🎵Magenta RealTime, the first open weights music generation model capable of real-time audio generation with real-time control.

👋 **Try Magenta RT on Colab TPUs**: https://t.co/SofwwmWlxC

👀 Blog post: https://t.co/QTypsxNHvK

🧵 below

[Adam Roberts @ada_rob]

@barret_zoph Welcome back!

[Adam Roberts @ada_rob]

Just got carded for Mythos in Greece. This is getting out of hand @AnthropicAI.

[Jordan Rudess @Jcrudess]

This makes me happy😄 Experiencing Google’s Magenta RealTime. Their latest creation.

It’s a very cool way of interacting with a music model in real time and steering it exactly where you want it to go.

#googlemagenta #magentarealtime2 #machinelearning #musicmagic

[apolinario (poli) @multimodalart]

I' m so addicted to @GoogleMagenta RealTime 2 🎹

so to justify playing with it 24/7 I ported the real-time apps to @huggingface Spaces 🤗 (and ported the entire lib to pytorch/transformers too)

Play live in real time on
https://t.co/5JSl6KCNnU

[Ilaria Manco @Ilaria__Manco]

Really proud to share something we’ve been working on for a while: Magenta RealTime 2 (MTR2), a live music model that is highly interactive (MIDI, audio, text, lots of parameters) and low-latency (~200ms end-to-end), and runs locally on a MacBook!

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

Introducing Magenta RealTime 2, a new open model musicians can play as an instrument!

Run low-latency, live music synthesis natively on your MacBook using MIDI, text, and audio. 🎶

We love seeing Google’s open model ecosystem grow!

[Adam Roberts @ada_rob]

Finally, you can truly *play* the model as an instrument, letting you decide how much control you want and how much you want it to riff along with you.

AND open weights AND runs on your machine for ultra-low latency.

Hope you enjoy it!

[Google Magenta Project @GoogleMagenta]

Introducing Magenta RealTime 2 (MRT2): the live music model you can play as an instrument.

MRT2 offers MIDI and prompt controls, and runs natively on a MacBook with <200ms latency.

Open weights. Open source inference engine. Suite of apps and plugins.

Hear what it can do and try it out for yourself below 🧵

[Jesse Engel @jesseengel]

I'm so proud of the team for this work. Live, Local, Open, MRT2 is just a lot of fun, and is an AI Instrument puts the person back at the center of making music.

[Google Magenta Project @GoogleMagenta]

Putting people at the center of the creative process has always been at the core of the Magenta project, and we think MRT2 continues in this tradition of interactive, genre-bending, open tools by and for musicians.

It’s been a labor of love for all the contributors and collaborators who have made this project happen. We’ve had a lot of fun with it, and we hope you do too ♥️.

@antoine_caillon, @iansimon, @Ilaria__Manco, @eardrummer_man, @georgealways, @chrisdonahuey, @DoItRealTime, @noahconst, @yotammann, @ada_rob, @JulianSlzr, @hellothisiscass, @lancelotbla, @KehangHan, @jesseengel

[Google Magenta Project @GoogleMagenta]

Introducing Magenta RealTime 2 (MRT2): the live music model you can play as an instrument.

MRT2 offers MIDI and prompt controls, and runs natively on a MacBook with <200ms latency.

Open weights. Open source inference engine. Suite of apps and plugins.

Hear what it can do and try it out for yourself below 🧵

[Jesse Engel @jesseengel]

We've got a new model coming out next week! We've been having a lot of fun playing with it, and I hope you will too♥️

We'll be celebrating by presenting at the AI Music Summit at Berklee and helping teams at the hackathon afterwards build some wild new musical instruments 🎸

[Jesse Engel @jesseengel]

I just can't bring myself to vaugepost, feels too 2025 cringe. So.....

We've got a new live music model coming out soon!

If you live in NYC, come check out it out in person and watch the amazing @eardrummer_man do a live interactive performance with it!

https://t.co/7Qb1LELJEl

[Adam Roberts @ada_rob]

@elonmusk How do you not realize you're a huge part of why this is the case?

[Jesse Engel @jesseengel]

Today, we're open sourcing the code behind "The Infinite Crate," our VST/AU plugin that lets you play with Lyria RealTime directly inside your favorite DAW! 🎧🎶

Since we released The Infinite Crate last year, it’s been used by some of our favorite artists - including a wonderful showcase with @daitomanabe in Tokyo - and being featured as a top new music tool at NAMM 2026.

We’re now fully open sourcing the plugin for developers to fork, modify, and make their own under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.

💾 Get it here: https://t.co/ocgW8KQpHz

[Adam Roberts @ada_rob]

@Miles_Brundage it's gotten exciting again

[Beaster Work Kirk @12_7_99_halleys]

pocket 😳 disgusting

[Adam Roberts @ada_rob]

@davidshor @Miles_Brundage All this shows is how much room they still have to grow their revenue.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Our short film Dear Upstairs Neighbors is previewing at @sundancefest. 🎬

It’s a story about noisy neighbors, but behind the scenes, it’s about solving a huge challenge in generative AI: control.

Developed by Pixar alumni, an Academy Award winner, researchers, and engineers, here’s how it came together. 🎨

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

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