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Bourgeau: End-to-end differentiable retrieval and search in training will take years
“I think deep down, I do believe that the long-term answer is to learn this differentiable end-to-end way, which means probably doing pre-training or whatever that looks like in the future, Learn to retrieve as part of the training and learn how to do search as…”
Sebastien Bourgeau Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 40:09 ”We’re Ahead of Where I Thought We’d Be” — Gemini 3 & the Future of AI
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Bourgeau: Retrieval-augmented pre-training could become viable in a few years
“I just think it's not unreasonable to think in the next few years, something like that might actually become viable for a leading model like general.”
Sebastien Bourgeau Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 50:54 ”We’re Ahead of Where I Thought We’d Be” — Gemini 3 & the Future of AI
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DeepMind's Bourgeau predicts major AI-driven scientific breakthroughs within years
“I think we will be able to make some large scientific discoveries in the next few years.”
Sebastien Bourgeau Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 6:14 ”We’re Ahead of Where I Thought We’d Be” — Gemini 3 & the Future of AI
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Bourgeau: Agentic workflows will accelerate AI research tasks in the next year
“The first part, I think, especially in the next year with more agentic workflows being enabled more and more, that should be able to really accelerate our work there.”
Sebastien Bourgeau Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 7:35 ”We’re Ahead of Where I Thought We’d Be” — Gemini 3 & the Future of AI
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Bourgeau expects significant long-context AI innovations in the next year
“I think there's going to be a lot more innovation on that side in the next year or so to make long context more efficient, but also just to extend the context length of models themselves.”
Sebastien Bourgeau Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 37:45 ”We’re Ahead of Where I Thought We’d Be” — Gemini 3 & the Future of AI
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