Ben Poole

ex-google brain and deepmind.

phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

[Ben Poole @poolio]

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 https://t.co/j6c1N38tRS and read the blog for more info:
https://t.co/6ZOi9d9rah

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@baophamhq @CSProfKGD @jaschasd @pfau looping goes way way back, see eg hopfield nets

[SpAItial AI @SpAItial_AI]

We're hiring at SpAItial 🚀🚀🚀

Want to build AI that generates 3D worlds and understands their physics? 15 roles in London & Munich:

🧠 RS: World Models · 3D Diffusion · 3D Recon · Robot Learning
🛠️ RE: World Models · 3D Recon · Graphics
⚡ ML Infra · Inference

Join us 👇

[Ben Poole @poolio]

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 (https://t.co/5kvTUNa4lL & https://t.co/aq8PQ61Cek)

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

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.”

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Congratulations to our first #NobelPrize laureate of 2026 🎉

Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

He seems very happy with the news!

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@BenMildenhall @theworldlabs woohoo congrats!

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

I've been on a Blender kick with Opus 5.5. Its better 3D modeling and vision mean you can build an entire world from a single prompt.

Historically accurate San Francisco Market street in 1906, pre-earthquake

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

I just realized Opus 5.5 can use Blender to make claymations with just a single prompt in claude dot ai now

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@aliteracy google sf office is awesome

[Ben Poole @poolio]

sketch-to-simulation with Opus 5.5

[Claude @claudeai]

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.

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@mttrdmnd @matt_slotnick @peterhartlaub no power test but all riders hit >100g carbs/hour with no bonks on the dance floor

[Ben Poole @poolio]

❤️🚲💑

[Matt Redmond @mttrdmnd]

Got married in the park (in a bicycle parade) last weekend and @peterhartlaub put together such a lovely article about it!

https://t.co/hIoCUYePye

[Sander Dieleman @sedielem]

We are hiring research scientists and engineers🧑‍🔬 on the Gemini Omni team! Both in the US (Mountain View / SF) and Europe (London / Zürich).

Apply here: https://t.co/8bNvJWQAAL

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@chrisdonahuey

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@unixpickle top rated text in top right

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@kdexd @theworldlabs @BenMildenhall moar dennis

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@DrYangSong niiiice

[Keunhong Park @KeunhongP]

Atlas is live! A spatial foundation model, trained in-house from scratch.

After shipping RTFM last year, I was convinced a single camera-conditioned model could unify most spatial generation tasks. Atlas is that bet at scale.

The core idea👇

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@matt_slotnick hah we saw him biking up from tam junction!

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@sam__silv tfti

[Ben Poole @poolio]

@JeffDean Woohoo! Thank you for the inspiration and support at Google and on the bike to Monterey, hope the new gig keeps you spinning :)