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A high-signal researcher for understanding how DeepMind approaches generality, especially in areas where reinforcement learning, multimodality, and large-scale systems meet.
Researcher Profile
Editor reviewedKoray Kavukcuoglu
Large-scale training, systems
Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind
A high-signal figure for understanding how DeepMind turned ambitious research systems into durable products, especially across reinforcement learning, speech, and code generation.
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Google DeepMind
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March 18, 2026
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Large-scale research leadership at Google DeepMind
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WaveNet and productized generative audio
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Research programs connecting frontier models to deployed systems
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Large-scale training, systems
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GShard: Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding
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DeepMind
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