Thomas Kipf

Research at @GoogleDeepMind. Gemini Omni Team. Priors: GNNs, Structured World Models, Neural Assets, Veo Ingredients/References, Veo Robotics

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

My PhD thesis "Deep Learning with Graph-Structured Representations" is now available for download: https://t.co/hyz0cnoewZ -- It covers a range of emerging topics in Deep Learning: from graph neural nets (and graph convolutions) to structure discovery (objects, relations, events)

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

Legendary. First found and fixed by Gemini 3.7 Flash

[Jon Barron @jon_barron]

Hi all, I have a new result I'm excited to share. It turns out that *all existing implementations* of softmax and cross-entropy (that's JAX, PyTorch, textbooks, etc) have a subtle bug --- two bugs, actually. A simple rewrite fixes both, and eliminates "slingshots" when grokking:

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

@gstsdn great mission, congrats!

[Alex Dimakis @AlexGDimakis]

We added Gemini 4 Argon to our AutoResearchExam Pareto curve. It is 2-3 times cheaper compared to the other frontier models for almost the same ML engineering performance. Congratulations to the GDM team.

[Sean Kirmani @SeanKirmani]

there are no robot foundation models, just foundation models

[Nina Schick @NinaDSchick]

As a German, it is a tragedy: in a parallel universe this would be Germany’s moment, as it requires so much that Germany has traditionally excelled at: industrial capacity, engineering, world-leading physics, design and manufacturing excellence. That was exactly what ‘made in Germany,’ stood for.

[Google Antigravity @antigravity]

We’re rolling out Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity to paid Google AI Pro subscribers today. Demand has been incredible and we've scaled capacity deliberately to get here. We’ve rolled out a separate weekly-only Argon quota for Pro on top of the existing Gemini bucket for 3.8 Flash so you have the best of Gemini for all your tasks.

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

Solve coding, then use it to solve everything else

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

@natanielruizg You’ll be missed! Congrats on all the amazing work you’ve done here. Excited to see what’s next for you

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

Argon 🫶 Omni

[Russell Mendonca @mendonca_rl]

Argon can also plan effectively in world models!

Here it went through an iterated loop of 1) writing out plans for how to achieve a goal 2) using an omni world model to simulate consequences of actions 3) reflect on produced rollouts to modify the plan. This is the resulting video plan.

More details in our blog - https://t.co/FL6crVYY3X

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

Frontier models now enable zero-shot robotic control and other robotics use cases. Super excited about Gemini 4 Argon’s capabilities in this space.

[Igor Mordatch @IMordatch]

Argon is very capable model for agentic robotics use cases. We've put together number of examples across control, sim from real, value prediction, hindsight labeling, etc: https://t.co/hg63AsEWij Excited for folks to try it.

[koray kavukcuoglu @koraykv]

Excited to launch Gemini 4 Argon, designed to help with hardest coding and knowledge work tasks with its frontier capabilities..

For developers and enterprises, it’s available in the paid tier of the Gemini API and the Gemini platform, for Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, and Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and Search.

Read more: https://t.co/PGz8atgDbU

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

@Machina_Ratio With all due respect (dear human or bot), I think you missed the point. I live and invest in the US precisely because of the points the quoted article makes.

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

spot on

[Ambassador Andrew Puzder @USAmbEU]

European households are sitting on €10–12 trillion in cash and bank savings. Invested, that money could power European growth. A stronger European economy means a better trading partner for America and a more capable NATO ally.

So why isn't that money invested? Savers don't believe companies in Europe can earn enough to justify the risk.

Mario Draghi's competitiveness report named the cause: Europe has piled rule upon rule while its productivity engine has stalled. Small businesses agree. They call regulation their biggest obstacle.

Making investing simpler, as Brussels plans, is a start. But savers follow growth. So, how do we get there?

Energy abundance, faster permits, rewards for investing in growing firms, and an end to overlapping reporting rules that turn mid-sized firms into reporting shops.

And one test for every new rule: Would a competent founder still choose to build and grow in Europe?

Make Europe a better bet, and the capital will follow.

Read my op-ed in @rapporteur_news ↓ https://t.co/TQ67VXgAec

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

@simonbatzner @AnthropicAI Congrats, Simon!

[Bogdan Vko @BogdanVko]

I work at Google DeepMind and yes I have tried the model known externally as “Argon”.

I can say this:
I don’t reach for Opus anymore for any work (like I did when 3.8 Flash was our top model).

I hope that it will soon be generally available for everyone to enjoy!

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

That’s a solid recipe for developing RSI (repetitive strain injury)

[Vedant Misra @vedantmisra]

Gemini 4 is out. I personally spent months carefully setting the parameters by hand. Around parameter 1 trillion I started getting a little sloppy, so if you notice anything weird, that’s probably why. Please let us know how you like it!

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

Cant wait to see whoever picks Praseodymium first

[Liam Fedus @LiamFedus]

With Periodic Neon and Gemini Argon now taken, the race is afoot for Krypton

Congrats, Google and the team, on the impressive model and rejoining the frontier! The ongoing intelligence explosion is creating massive consumer surplus for users and startups. PhD on demand, pennies to run.

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

Really excited about this model. Well-rounded and incredibly strong across knowledge work, coding, science, and cybersecurity defense.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Introducing Gemini 4 Argon – our new frontier model.

It’s built for complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense – rolling out today to a set of trusted testers through our Fairwind Program.

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

@animesh_garg Congrats, Animesh!

[Thomas Kipf @tkipf]

@jcjohnss @AMD Congrats!