Leslie Nooteboom

Just two weeks after rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, excited to share a preview of Gemini 4 Carbon - our next frontier model. It has state-of-the-art long horizon coding capabilities driving SOTA performance across the cybersecurity defense lifecycle including detection, validation, and remediation. It also ranks #1 overall on the recently updated v5.0 of Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59. We're starting by rolling out to a subset of cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program this week and soon expanding access further. Read more at: blog.google/innovation-and-a…

Have fun with p5.brush 3.0.0 10x faster than 2.2.2 I asked claude to use the library to draw my portrait with javascript...

for better or worse, the rl problems i find most interesting are the ones whose rewards are hard to verify: what's truly creative, interesting, beautiful? criteria for these are even hard to articulate among humans. i think one reason is they are properties of not the artifact, but of the relation b/w the artifact and the observer, at a given moment. that also explains why chasing originality sometimes feels paradoxical: everyone sees the "most creative" against the same reference, so optimizing for it converges into a trend, hence totally defeating the purpose of being original. if you can't specify the target from outside, try looking inside. i feel intrinsic motivation research might be the right lens here, since it's the part of rl where reward is defined relative to the internal state of the observer, instead of progress toward an external objective.

Over 20,000 of you have played this since Friday! The crazy part isn’t even this game Gemini 4 made, it’s how quickly the way in which we make games and bring our ideas to life has changed. A year ago, this would’ve taken a whole weekend of babysitting code and a ton of testing. And a little over that, getting games like Snake and Pong was impressive. For this one, last Friday, I had the idea right before a full workday, fired off an agent loop in the background with Gemini 4 Argon, and just went to work. For 2 hours, the agent worked entirely in the background, on its own: - It inspected the Tesla Roadster’s website for styles, copy, car details - Looked up references for Subway Surfers - Watched the Roadster launch on YouTube to understand how the thrusters worked - Critiqued and iterated on its own work several times - Generated music using Lyria and commentary using Gemini TTS Again, all while I was going about my workday. I wasn’t even looking at the chat, just playing the game every so often between breaks whenever the agent pinged me to check it out. In total, I spent maybe 10 minutes prompting a few quick tweaks to the controls and camera views before hitting publish in AI Studio. If you’ve been sitting on an idea in your Notes app because you didn’t have the time or didn’t know how to code it, now is the time to jump in and try building it. The way in which we work is changing in real time and it may be the most fun time to be someone with ideas. Imagine what a few more iterations of these models will look like.

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