Nobel Laureate. Co-Founder & CEO
@GoogleDeepMind
- working on AGI. Revolutionising drug discovery
@IsomorphicLabs
. Trying to understand the nature of reality.
Winning the
@NobelPrize
is the honour of a lifetime and the realisation of a lifelong dream - it still hasn’t really sunk in yet.
With AlphaFold2 we cracked the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction: predicting the 3D structure of a protein purely from its
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
The Gemini era is here. Thrilled to launch Gemini 1.0, our most capable & general AI model. Built to be natively multimodal, it can understand many types of info. Efficient & flexible, it comes in 3 sizes each best-in-class & optimized for different uses
A year ago we open-sourced
#AlphaFold
Today we're freely sharing the predicted structures of all 200M+ proteins known to science - almost the entire protein universe!
It's our gift to humanity, and a demonstration of the benefits AI can bring to society
Thrilled to announce our first major breakthrough in applying AI to a grand challenge in science.
#AlphaFold
has been validated as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ & we hope it will have a big impact on disease understanding and drug discovery:
Thrilled to announce AlphaFold 3 which can predict the structures and interactions of nearly all of life’s molecules with state-of-the-art accuracy including proteins, DNA and RNA. Biology is a complex dynamical system so modeling interactions is crucial
Since 1969 Strassen’s algorithm has famously stood as the fastest way to multiply 2 matrices - but with
#AlphaTensor
we’ve found a new algorithm that’s faster, with potential to improve efficiency by 10-20% across trillions of calculations per day!
This is a day I’ve dreamed of my whole life, this is the reason
@DeepMind
was founded, to build AI and use it accomplish extraordinary scientific breakthroughs like
#AlphaFold
2, to advance science and benefit humanity. I could not be more proud of the incredible team!
Today with
@emblebi
, we're launching the
#AlphaFold
Protein Structure Database, which offers the most complete and accurate picture of the human proteome, doubling humanity’s accumulated knowledge of high-accuracy human protein structures - for free: 1/
Last year we presented
#AlphaFold
v2 which predicts 3D structures of proteins down to atomic accuracy. Today we’re proud to share the methods in
@Nature
w/open source code. Excited to see the research this enables. More very soon!
Massive congratulations to my good friend and former Google colleague
@geoffreyhinton
on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics (with John Hopfield)! Incredibly well deserved, Geoff laid the foundations for the deep learning revolution that underpins the modern AI field.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024
#NobelPrize
in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Delighted and honoured to receive a Knighthood for services to AI. It’s been an incredible journey so far building
@GoogleDeepMind
over the past 15 years, helping accelerate the field and grow the UK & global AI ecosystems. Thanks to everyone who helped make this dream possible!
The phenomenal teams from Google Research’s Brain and
@DeepMind
have made many of the seminal research advances that underpin modern AI, from Deep RL to Transformers. Now we’re joining forces as a single unit, Google DeepMind, which I’m thrilled to lead!
Excited to share
@GoogleDeepMind
’s newest AI model GraphCast: the most accurate 10-day global weather forecasting system in the world. GraphCast can also offer earlier warnings of extreme weather events, including the path of hurricanes. In
@Science
today
Published in
@Nature
: our AI system for material design ‘GNoME’ that found 380,000 new materials (which we’ve made freely available to the research community) with potential to accelerate greener tech from better batteries to more efficient superconductors
Advanced mathematical reasoning is a critical capability for modern AI. Today we announce a major milestone in a longstanding grand challenge: our hybrid AI system attained the equivalent of a silver medal at this year’s International Math Olympiad!
We’re presenting the first AI to solve International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver medalist level.🥈
It combines AlphaProof, a new breakthrough model for formal reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our previous system. 🧵
Brief update on some exciting progress on
#AlphaFold
! We’ve been heads down working flat out on our full methods paper (currently under review) with accompanying open source code and on providing broad free access to AlphaFold for the scientific community. More very soon!
Our latest work in
@Nature
today:
#AlphaDev
discovered a new faster sorting algorithm that we open sourced to the main C++ library for all developers to use. This is just the beginning of AI being used to find many more efficiencies in code in future
Excited to share
#AlphaMissense
our new AI system that can classify whether genetic mutations (missense variants) are benign or harmful - a critical step toward uncovering causes of many diseases, from cystic fibrosis to cancer. In
@ScienceMagazine
today
Wonderful day at the
@royalsociety
! Amazing to sign the 350-year old charter book with all my heroes including Alan Turing. The ultimate honour for a scientist. Was fun to do it with
@elonmusk
, my postdoc advisor Peter Dayan, and all the other great scientists elected this year
Excited to announce AlphaProteo, our breakthrough AI system for designing novel proteins that bind to a target molecule or protein. It has the potential to accelerate our understanding of biology, and aid the discovery of new drugs, the development of biosensors, & much more!
We’re presenting AlphaProteo: an AI system for designing novel proteins that bind more successfully to target molecules. 🧬
It could help scientists better understand how biological systems function, save time in research, advance drug design and more. 🧵
Thrilled to announce the launch of a new Alphabet company
@IsomorphicLabs
. Our mission is to reimagine the drug discovery process from first principles with an AI-first approach, to accelerate biomedical breakthroughs and find cures for diseases. Details:
The
#AlphaFold
2 papers on the methods and human proteome predictions are out today in hard copy in
@Nature
! A really proud moment to see our work featured with a fantastic image on the front cover of the issue:
Thrilled to share
#Lyria
, the world's most sophisticated AI music generation system. From just a text prompt Lyria produces compelling music & vocals. Also: building new Music AI tools for artists to amplify creativity in partnership w/YT & music industry
Highly recommend binge watching the new Netflix series Queen's Gambit, beautifully filmed, stunningly acted, and a pretty accurate portrayal of what it is like to be a child chess prodigy. Not surprising given that the brilliant
@Kasparov63
was a consultant on it!
#QueensGambit
Thanks for the great conversation
@lexfridman
! We talked about AGI, intelligence, consciousness, game design, science, aliens, life, time, the fabric of reality... basically everything ... let's do it again soon!!😀
Here's my conversation with
@demishassabis
, CEO of
@DeepMind
, a company behind some of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of AI and science in general. Demis is a brilliant and kind human being. This chat was truly an honor and a pleasure for me.
We have a long history of supporting responsible open source & science, which can drive rapid research progress, so we’re proud to release Gemma: a set of lightweight open models, best-in-class for their size, inspired by the same tech used for Gemini
The world has lost a beautiful mind and an extraordinary human being. Such a privilege to have once had the chance to talk to Stephen about AI. RIP Stephen Hawking
Big milestone: 1M+ researchers have now made use of
#AlphaFold
in their vital work, in the 18 months since we made it freely available.
From antibiotic resistance to crop sustainability, it's been amazing to see the impact of ‘Science at Digital Speed’:
Excited to share major progress on next generation of AlphaFold! Together with
@IsomorphicLabs
, we’ve significantly advanced accuracy & expanded coverage beyond proteins to other key biomolecular classes. Continuing to accelerate science at digital speed
Proteins are essential to life. Predicting their 3D structure is a major unsolved challenge in biology and could impact disease understanding and drug discovery. I’m excited to announce that we have won the CASP13 protein folding competition!
#AlphaFold
Introducing
#AlphaCode
: a system that can compete at average human level in competitive coding competitions like
@codeforces
. An exciting leap in AI problem-solving capabilities, combining many advances in machine learning!
Read more: 1/
Never seen a competitive leaderboard that I didn't like 😀 Congrats to the Gemini team on ranking no.1 🏆 with our latest improved Gemini 1.5 Pro developer preview model, which you can try on AI studio now!
Exciting News from Chatbot Arena!
@GoogleDeepMind
's new Gemini 1.5 Pro (Experimental 0801) has been tested in Arena for the past week, gathering over 12K community votes.
For the first time, Google Gemini has claimed the
#1
spot, surpassing GPT-4o/Claude-3.5 with an impressive
Congrats to the
#AlphaGeometry
team on their impressive breakthrough published today in
@Nature
using a neuro-symbolic hybrid AI system that can solve Maths Olympiad-level geometry problems.
Hugely honoured to receive the Breakthrough Prize alongside my wonderful colleague John Jumper! This is an incredible recognition of
#AlphaFold
and the impact it has already had - and a great credit to the amazing work and dedication of the entire AlphaFold team at
@DeepMind
“Change the world” is a phrase we hear a lot. But Demis Hassabis and John Jumper
@DeepMind
did. AlphaFold has solved the protein structure prediction problem, one of the central challenges in biology and medicine. They win the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
We think of
@GoogleDeepMind
as the engine room of
@Google
in the AI era. Thrilled to share our vision at
#GoogleIO
incl the latest Gemini model 1.5 Flash, Project Astra our universal AI agent effort, our new gen video model Veo, Imagen 3 & lots more!
TacticAI is an AI system that can advise football coaches on tactics & plays This was a really fun project to work on in collaboration with my much loved Liverpool FC
@LFC
- fingers crossed we win the league this year to give Klopp a fitting send off!
We created SynthID, a robust digital watermarking technology to tag & identify AI-generated content. Now we’re open-sourcing SynthID-Text so developers can use it to embed & detect watermarks in text outputs from their own LLMs. Published today in
@Nature
Today, we’re open-sourcing our SynthID text watermarking tool through an updated Responsible Generative AI Toolkit.
Available freely to developers and businesses, it will help them identify their AI-generated content. 🔍
Find out more →
For a long time, we’ve been working towards a universal AI agent that can be truly helpful in everyday life. Today at
#GoogleIO
we showed off our latest progress towards this: Project Astra. Here’s a video of our prototype, captured in real time.
Announcing
#AlphaZero
- our general RL system that starts from random and learns thru self-play to beat the top chess, shogi & go programs! Preliminary arxiv paper: Games here: More details in full peer-reviewed paper coming soon.
Excited for our latest breakthrough published in
@Nature
today,
#FunSearch
('searching' in 'function' space) is the first system to make new verifiable discoveries in open problems in math & CS, we applied it to find a more efficient solution to the classic 'bin packing' problem
Introducing FunSearch in
@Nature
: a method using large language models to search for new solutions in mathematics & computer science. 🔍
It pairs the creativity of an LLM with an automated evaluator to guard against hallucinations and incorrect ideas. 🧵
In December we began the Gemini Era, and we’ve continued to make relentless progress since. Today we’re thrilled to introduce the next generation: Gemini 1.5 - hugely enhanced performance, highly efficient architecture & long-context length breakthrough
Incredibly honoured to see
#AlphaFold
recognised as the Scientific Breakthrough of the Year by
@ScienceMagazine
!! Amazing to see the impact it has already had on biological research in just a few short months, and fantastic that others are already building on our work.
AI algorithms can now churn out predictions for the 3D shapes of proteins with a precision matching that of painstaking laboratory techniques. The programs, and the blizzard of protein structures they have revealed, are Science’s 2021
#BOTY
.
Thrilled to welcome
@_tim_brooks
to
@GoogleDeepMind
. So excited to be working together to make the long-standing dream of a world simulator a reality!!
I will be joining
@GoogleDeepMind
to work on video generation and world simulators! Can't wait to collaborate with such a talented team.
I had an amazing two years at OpenAI making Sora. Thank you to all the passionate and kind people I worked with. Excited for the next chapter!
Ramanujan is my favourite mathematician. I’ve always loved his intuitive style, seeing hidden patterns in numbers noone else could. It inspired us to wonder about the potential of using AI as a tool to help the intuition of today’s top mathematicians:
Thrilled to announce
@IsomorphicLabs
collaborations with
@EliLillyandCo
&
@Novartis
potentially worth nearly $3 billion. These target-based programs represent just the start of the phenomenal real-world impact AI will have in accelerating drug discovery:
Playing chess is what got me thinking about thinking, earned me the money to buy my first computer, and inspired me to code my first AI program. Amazing to reflect on how much chess shaped my life and career. Happy International Chess Day!
Hugely honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society - a lifelong dream come true! Thanks to the brilliant
@DeepMindAI
team and all the people who supported me over the years. Now just have to make sure I don’t smudge the 350-year old Charter Book at signing :-)
#RSFellows
Fantastic to see
#GraphCast
, our open source state-of-the-art weather prediction system, featured on the cover of
@ScienceMagazine
& listed in the top 10 breakthroughs of the year - congrats to the team! Another great example of how AI built responsibly can benefit humanity.
Trained on four decades of historical data,
#GraphCast
from
@GoogleDeepMind
is an
#AI
model that predicts global weather with greater speed and accuracy compared with traditional approaches.
Learn more in Science's last issue of 2023:
The meeting has been a few years in the making, but it was worth it! Thanks
@lexfridman
for the fascinating conversation - and the game of chess :) - it was a lot of fun!
Excited to announce SIMA, a general AI agent for games & 3D virtual settings. It marks the first time an agent has demonstrated it can follow natural-language instructions to carry out a wide range of tasks across a large array of game worlds, similar to how a human would play.
Our research project SIMA is creating a general, natural language instructable, multi 3D game-playing AI agent. The agent can carry out a wide range of tasks in virtual worlds, making AI more adaptable, helpful & fun!
Chess is such a tough and brutal game at the highest level, one mistake and all that hard work is for naught. Incredibly exciting candidates tournament & huge congrats to
@DGukesh
- it was an honour to partner with you at the London Chess Classic Pro-biz Cup last year! I'll be
Final moments of the magical yet tragic final round game between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana.
This game will surely go down as one of the greatest games of chess ever played in the Candidates.
#chess
#chessbaseindia
#candidates2024
It's 2 years since we launched the
#AlphaFold
Protein Structure Database with
@emblebi
. Since then we’ve predicted 200M+ protein structures & it's been used by over 1M researchers to advance disease understanding, accelerate drug discovery & much more eg:
Here’s a fun demo of long-context understanding. First, we asked the model to find 3 amusing moments in the 402-page pdf transcription of the iconic Apollo 11 mission. Then we uploaded a simple drawing of a boot and it identified the moment we had in mind: Neil’s one small step!
The
#AlphaFold
database has doubled in size today & now includes more than 800,000 structures. This is just one more step towards releasing 100+ million protein structures over the next year, that will cover almost every sequenced protein known to science!!
Today with
@emblebi
we’re expanding the
#AlphaFold
Protein Structure Database to cover UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (of
@uniprot
). This includes key proteins of interest that have been manually curated by experts & will more than double the database size to >800k!
As an AI-first company, I'm so excited for what's coming, including Gemini, the new Google DeepMind foundation model in training that will have impressive multimodal capabilities not seen in prior models. Can't wait to share more in the future!
#GoogleIO
1/Today at
#GoogleIO
we shared the bold and responsible approach we're taking to use AI to reimagine our products, including Search with a new generative search experience coming first to Labs. You can sign up starting today.
We want to congratulate
@demishassabis
, CEO of DeepMind for the incredible advances the company is making in the study of protein structures. Using its AI programme AlphaFold, they have made substantial discoveries in determining a protein’s 3D shape from its amino-acid sequence
The full peer-reviewed
#AlphaZero
paper published today in
@sciencemagazine
along with more than 200 games which show off its beautiful style I hope you enjoy them!
as a chess player, it feels like chess from another dimension :)
I agree with Einstein, and have some thoughts on the matter that I might write up at some point. Einstein's intuitions have almost always turned out to be correct in the fullness of time.
Einstein never "denied" quantum mechanis. He accepted it as a useful model to describe observations, he merely thought that it was an approximation of a deeper yet-to-be-found theory. Or as he put it, it was "incomplete". I think he was right.
Proud of our latest work applying AI to Quantum Chemistry published in
@ScienceMagazine
! The properties of materials largely depend on their electrons. We introduce a new SOTA functional DM21 (open-sourced) that can accurately model many types of molecules
I believe AGI will be one of the most important inventions humanity will ever make. Thanks to
@60Minutes
for visiting
@DeepMind
last month and learning about how we’re working with
@Google
to drive AI breakthroughs in a bold and responsible way.
DeepMind developed an AI program that created a 3D mapping of all 200 million proteins known to science. The CEO predicts it would have taken humans a billion years to complete this project.
A huge honour to have received the Breakthrough Prize with John Jumper for
#AlphaFold
. The ceremony was a wonderful and fun event, and great to see science popularised in the mainstream, hopefully it will help to inspire the next generation to get into research and science!
Congratulations to
@DemisHassabis
and John Jumper who received the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work on
#AlphaFold
, an AI system to predict the 3D structure of proteins. 🧬
Find out more. →
Bard is now called Gemini; and Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0 has launched! It was the most preferred chatbot in blind evaluations with third-party raters. And it’s now available on mobile on Android and iOS. Have fun trying it out!
Bard is becoming Gemini, and we’re launching two new experiences:
1️⃣ Gemini Advanced, which gives you access to Ultra 1.0, our most capable AI model
2️⃣ A new mobile app for easier collaboration on the go
Learn more ↓
The complex real-time strategy game StarCraft II is a long-standing grand challenge for AI - excited to show our progress on Thurs, you’ll definitely want to tune in to the livestream! :-)
#StarCraft2
I’ve worked my whole life on AI because I believe in its incredible potential to advance science & medicine, and improve billions of people's lives. But as with any transformative technology we should apply the precautionary principle, and build & deploy it with exceptional care
We’ve released a statement on the risk of extinction from AI.
Signatories include:
- Three Turing Award winners
- Authors of the standard textbooks on AI/DL/RL
- CEOs and Execs from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Google DeepMind, Anthropic
- Many more
Thrilled to welcome
@NoamShazeer
to
@GoogleDeepMind
(& back to
@Google
)! Noam co-created the transformers architecture that underpins the modern AI industry, and is one of the most inventive researchers I know. Really excited to be working with you on Gemini and AGI!
Amazing to think it has been 5 years since the
#AlphaGo
match in Seoul. It was an epic once-in-a-lifetime experience and when I rewatch the award-winning documentary (20M+ views!) all the emotions always come flooding back:
My recent talk at
@MIT
which covers a lot of our exciting new work applying AI to chess, StarCraft 2, and protein folding is now available on youtube here:
#AlphaZero
#AlphaGo
#AlphaStar
Feedback loop: train SOTA chip design model (AlphaChip) -> use it to design better AI chips -> use them to train better models -> to design better chips... part of the reason why our TPU stack is so good. Congrats
@Azaliamirh
,
@annadgoldie
,
@JeffDean
& the AlphaChip team!
Our AI for chip design method AlphaChip has transformed the way we design microchips. ⚡
From helping to design state-of-the-art TPUs for building AI models to CPUs in data centers - its widespread impact can be seen across Alphabet and beyond.
Find out more →
You can now start building with Gemini Pro! We’ve released the Gemini API in AI Studio, as well as
@GoogleCloud
’s Vertex AI. Looking forward to seeing what people create with Gemini
#BuildWithGemini
I’ve long been fascinated by how the brain constructs images in the mind’s eye. Our new
@ScienceMagazine
paper intros GQN: a model capable of recreating a 3D representation of a scene from a handful of 2D snapshots + rendering it from any new camera angle
Huge congratulations to
@geoffreyhinton
,
@ylecun
, and Yoshua Bengio for winning the Turing Award (the highest honour in Computer Science). Richly deserved recognition for pioneering deep learning and their outstanding contributions to modern AI
It's always great to look back on the year in a year-in-review blogpost with
@JeffDean
& James Manyika. It's been an amazingly productive year for us, doing awesome research, shipping products and advancing science - 2024 is going to be incredible!
Turns out everything is a matrix multiplication from computer graphics to training neural networks :) Our latest front cover
@Nature
paper on
#AlphaTensor
here:
Our latest work demonstrates how agents achieve human-level performance in a complex first-person multiplayer game, and can even collaborate with human teammates!
Very proud of the incredible
@DeepMindAI
team, this is recognition of the immense contribution they have all made to the world of science and technology - and what’s more, we are only really just getting started!
Really excited to be opening a new office in London next year! Our vision is for it to be the ideal environment for AI research, science & collaboration.
Really excited to share the beta release of
#SynthID
, a watermarking tool created by
@GoogleDeepMind
and made available via
@GoogleCloud
to help tag and identify AI-generated images
Deeply honoured to receive the 2023
#LaskerAward
with John Jumper for our work on
#AlphaFold
- now used by 1M+ researchers to advance a huge range of work including drug discovery - and delighted this will bring attention to the potential of AI to enable science at digital speed!
Huge congrats to Nat and team, amazing work and great use of AI! Can't wait to read some of these ancient books that were thought to be lost to the world!
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
Gato🐈a scalable generalist agent that uses a single transformer with exactly the same weights to play Atari, follow text instructions, caption images, chat with people, control a real robot arm, and more:
Paper: 1/
"Programs usually reflect priorities and prejudices of programmers, but because AlphaZero programs itself, I would say that its style reflects the truth." Awesome words from the brilliant
@Kasparov63
- read Kasparov's insightful review of
#AlphaZero
here:
It was such an honour to receive the Pius XI medal from Pope Francis and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
@CasinaPioIV
, following in the footsteps of some of my scientific heroes including the late great Stephen Hawking!
Thank you
@EmmanuelMacron
for your thoughtful leadership. So honoured to have been part of the AI Summit today, with so many distinguished guests and inspiring talks. We're looking forward to this exciting new chapter for DeepMind in Paris!
#AIforHumanity
#DeepMindParis
Gemma 2 is available to researchers & developers. At 27B it delivers best-in-class performance for its size and is competitive even to models over twice its size! Proud to continue our tradition of thoughtfully bringing cutting-edge research to the open models ecosystem.
We're excited to unveil Gemma 2. 🛠️
Available in both 9B and 27B parameters, it delivers the best performance for its size - unlocking more possibilities for developers to build and deploy with AI. →
My first time on the
@TEDTalks
stage was a really fun experience.
@TEDchris
and I had a great conversation about the ways AI will accelerate scientific discovery and help us solve the biggest problems facing humanity, from tackling cancer to climate: