Vikram

LLMs / Gemini @GoogleDeepMind @Google. Past lives @meta, @x, @cornell & @iitmadras. Lover of long drives, the outdoors, and Carnatic music.

[Vikram @raosvikram]

Here's what @emirates has to say about requesting a cancellation with refund. @Chase please automate this to relieve your customer service of its load from people like me who haven't started their journey, so that they can spend their energy helping those stranded mid-journey.

[Vikram @raosvikram]

Hey @Chase, can you please have a way on your website to cancel bookings on middle-eastern carriers? After hours on hold over many phone calls, I've been redirected to multiple departments, told they don't have an @emirates waiver code & that I can't cancel w/o me on the phone.

[Vikram @raosvikram]

It was a lot of fun pushing the boundary of LLMs, retrieval, synthetic data, and agents in crafting this benchmark.

Check out the technical report for more of the interesting details.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’ve developed the FACTS Benchmark Suite with @GoogleResearch. 📊

It’s the industry’s first comprehensive test evaluating LLM factuality across four dimensions: internal model knowledge, web search, grounding, and multimodal inputs.

[Oriol Vinyals @OriolVinyalsML]

The secret behind Gemini 3?

Simple: Improving pre-training & post-training 🤯

Pre-training: Contra the popular belief that scaling is over—which we discussed in our NeurIPS '25 talk with @ilyasut and @quocleix—the team delivered a drastic jump. The delta between 2.5 and 3.0 is as big as we've ever seen. No walls in sight!

Post-training: Still a total greenfield. There's lots of room for algorithmic progress and improvement, and 3.0 hasn't been an exception, thanks to our stellar team.

Congratulations to the whole team 💙💙💙

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

This is Gemini 3: our most intelligent model that helps you learn, build and plan anything.

It comes with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities, world-leading multimodal understanding, and enables new agentic coding experiences. 🧵

[Arena.ai @arena]

BREAKING: Gemini 2.5 Pro is now #1 on the Arena leaderboard - the largest score jump ever (+40 pts vs Grok-3/GPT-4.5)! 🏆

Tested under codename "nebula"🌌, Gemini 2.5 Pro ranked #1🥇 across ALL categories and UNIQUELY #1 in Math, Creative Writing, Instruction Following, Longer Query, and Multi-Turn!

Massive congrats to @GoogleDeepMind for this incredible Arena milestone! 🙌

More highlights in thread👇

[Vikram @raosvikram]

More MTEB metrics at: https://t.co/ktUQbNtacP

[Vikram @raosvikram]

Check out Gemini Embeddings! Glad to have played a part in making the model do well for difficult retrieval tasks.

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Today we are rolling out an experimental Gemini Embedding model for developers with:

– SOTA performance on MTEB (Multilingual)
- Input context length of (3K --> 8K) tokens
– Output 3K dimensions
– Support for over (50 --> 100) languages

More details in 🧵

[Vikram @raosvikram]

https://t.co/ML1e0SIbj1

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

The new model, gemini-embedding-exp-03-07, is our most capable text embedding model yet, surpassing our previous embedding model – text-embedding-004.

It’s top ranked on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Multilingual leaderboard!

[Vikram @raosvikram]

If you're curious about an end-to-end view on training LLMs - from model architecture to deep systems-level understanding - please check out this book.

For those not deeply involved in training LLMs, the book offers an impressive level of detail.

[Jacob Austin @jacobaustin132]

Making LLMs run efficiently can feel scary, but scaling isn’t magic, it’s math! We wanted to demystify the “systems view” of LLMs and wrote a little textbook called “How To Scale Your Model” which we’re releasing today. 1/n

[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!

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental model that explicitly shows its thoughts.

Built on 2.0 Flash’s speed and performance, this model is trained to use thoughts to strengthen its reasoning.

And we see promising results when we increase inference time computation!

[Vikram @raosvikram]

Grateful to the @AdityaBirlaGrp for validating the dreams of a 17-year-old claiming he wanted to work on Artificial Intelligence. This scholarship has opened doors for me on more than one occasion, and I'm honored to be a part of this community. 🙏

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

[PAID PARTNERSHIP]

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF THE ADITYA BIRLA SCHOLARSHIPS

“When an Aditya Birla Scholar working at Microsoft, drives the AI for good agenda forward, India rises. When another pushes the boundaries of biotech, India advances. When an Aditya Birla Scholar incubates a social enterprise in a remote corner of our country, India reaches further. When one advises global CEOs from Mumbai, India’s wisdom echoes. When one teaches at any Ivy league university, India’s influence spreads far and wide. And when an Aditya Birla Scholar serves at the Indian Embassy in Paris as an IFS officer, India speaks with authority.”

- Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, in his inaugural address at this milestone event.

#AdityaBirlaScholars #25YearsOfExcellence #TomorrowsLeadersToday #AForceForGood #AdityaBirlaGroup

@AdityaBirlaGrp

[Aditya Birla Group @AdityaBirlaGrp]

Our Chairman Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla voices our heritage of 25 years of amplifying education, the Aditya Birla Scholarships Programme unlocks the power of potential.

By investing in their future, we empower leaders set to shape a brighter tomorrow, make a lasting difference.

[Vikram @raosvikram]

@dsivakumar Congratulations on bringing all your research threads (LLMs, recommender systems, personalization, etc.) together into a polished product!

[Vikram @raosvikram]

@adith387 Congratulations Adith!

[Vikram @raosvikram]

Congratulations to @demishassabis, John Jumper, & @geoffreyhinton for their well deserved Nobel Prizes! This is a recognition both of AI's scientific foundations, and of its impact & potential. Personally, it's a true honor to have them as bosses / colleagues (past & present).

[Vikram @raosvikram]

@nihit_desai @IllinoisCS @RefuelAI Congratulations Nihit!

[Vikram @raosvikram]

@debarghya_das Congratulations Deedy!

[Vikram @raosvikram]

@debarghya_das @glean Congratulations Deedy! Huge milestone.