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Chen: Google DeepMind cut data center power use by 20 to 25%
“All of these variables fed into a system, and they were able to take 20 to 25% of the electricity out of the equation, serving the exact same workload.”
Wang: Nano Banana follows instructions less effectively in long conversations
“Once you get into real long conversations, like it starts to follow your instructions a little bit worse”
Parker-Holder: Genie 2 suffered transfer issues from image prompting
“So I think that that's actually a really important capability that we didn't have with Genie too as well, right? Because we relied on image prompting. And so, there was some transfer issue, like, where you rely on imagine to generate the image, and that often …”
Fruchter: DeepMind achieved real-time interactive environment generation
“We weren't sure, like, how, how big it's gonna be but we definitely felt, I felt definitely that we have something that was kind of like for a long time coming, basically being able to generate environments in real time. I think a lot of work that was done in,…”
Fruchter: Genie 3 currently caps spatial memory retention at one minute
“There was not like, there is no like fundamental limitation, but Currently the current design we limited to one minute of this type of memories.”
Parker-Holder: Veo 2 launched one week after Genie 2
“So we had this Genie II project that was much more sort of like, three environments that it could generate, and it wasn't super high quality. It felt like it coming from Genie I, but it wasn't the same quality as things like VO II, which you know, the Saints o…”