Google DeepMind
Google's combined AI lab: Gemini, AlphaFold and robotics research.
Field guides
Milestones
- Dec 2023
Gemini 1.0
Google's first model family trained multimodal from the start.
- Jul 2023
RT-2
A vision-language-action model transfers web knowledge into robot control.
- Oct 2022
ReAct
Reason, act, observe, repeat. The loop at the heart of nearly every agent framework.
- Mar 2022
Chinchilla
Most large models were undertrained. Compute-optimal training scales tokens with parameters.
- Jan 2022
Chain-of-thought prompting
Asking models to show intermediate steps sharply improves multi-step reasoning: the seed of reasoning models.
- Nov 2020
AlphaFold 2 at CASP14
Protein structure prediction reaches near-experimental accuracy. The clearest case of AI solving a long-standing scientific problem.
- Oct 2018
BERT
Bidirectional pre-training then fine-tuning becomes the default recipe for language understanding.
- Jun 2017
The Transformer
“Attention Is All You Need” replaces recurrence with self-attention. Almost every frontier model since is built on it.