Sep 25, 2026

Runway’s Bet Beyond Video: World Models, Robotics, and the Neural OS — Anastasis Germanidis

Anastasis Germanidis, co-founder of Runway, discusses the company's journey from early generative creative tools to frontier video models, emphasizing their pivot towards general-purpose world simulation. He details the evolution of Gen-1, Gen-2, and Gen-3 (scaling 10x after Sora's release), highlighting the importance of controllability and the inevitability of real-time generation. The conversation delves into cutting-edge applications like Interface World Models (a fully neural operating system) and World Models for Robotics, where third-person video data and robust simulation are key to training intelligent agents.

May 24, 2026

⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind

An in-depth look at Gemma 4's novel transformer architecture with per-layer embeddings, enabling efficient parameter offloading for on-device inference. The discussion also covers its native multimodality, the state of fine-tuning, text-based diffusion models, and the growing intersection of research and engineering.

May 18, 2026

Let's go Bananas with GenMedia — Guillaume Vernade, Google DeepMind

Guillaume Vernade from Google DeepMind demonstrates a full generative media pipeline, using Gemini to read a public domain book and act as a master prompt engineer for other models. Imagen generates character portraits, Veo animates scenes into video, Lyria composes a unique soundtrack for each chapter, and a clever TTS trick creates a multi-character audiobook.

May 12, 2026

Computer use in Codex

Ari Weinstein discusses how Codex's 'computer use' feature allows the AI agent to operate local Mac applications in the background by combining multimodal vision with accessibility data, enabling non-intrusive, parallel task execution.

Apr 29, 2026

Build & deploy AI-powered apps — Paige Bailey, Google DeepMind

A developer-focused, demo-heavy session on rapid AI prototyping using the Google DeepMind stack. It covers how to leverage the full capabilities of AI Studio, from video analysis and code execution with Gemini 3.1 Flash, to building full-stack applications with databases, and exploring the frontiers of generative media with Genie 3, Veo 3.1 Lite, and Lyria 3.

Apr 27, 2026

Open Models at Google DeepMind — Cassidy Hardin, Google DeepMind

Cassidy Hardin from Google DeepMind introduces Gemma 4, a new family of open-weight models with significant architectural and performance improvements. This summary covers the four new models (31B Dense, 26B MoE, and two "Effective" on-device models), deep dives into architectural changes like mixed global/local attention and Per-Layer Embeddings (PLE), and details the new native multimodal capabilities for vision and audio.