One of the more useful people to study for the Gemini era because his work spans both the text-core of multimodal frontier models and the optimization tricks that make those systems cheaper and more stable to train.
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Editor reviewedSebastian Borgeaud
Gemini (multimodal foundation models)
Gemini co-lead for text modeling
A high-signal researcher for understanding the modern scaling playbook, especially around compute-optimal training, retrieval-augmented language models, and the text side of Gemini-era multimodal systems.
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Compute-optimal scaling
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Retrieval-augmented language models
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Gemini and Flamingo-era multimodal systems
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Gemini (multimodal foundation models)
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Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models
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