Ben Poole

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@poolio

ex-google brain and deepmind.

phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

San Francisco, CA poolio.github.io Joined March 2008

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Ben Poole @poolio May 19

Real-world models are here! Stoked to share how we're bringing real-world locations to life by integrating Street View into Genie. Try it now at labs.google/fx/projectgenie and read the blog for more info:
blog.google/innovation-and…

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Ben Poole @poolio Oct 27

Genie 4 brings realistic dynamics and sound to realtime interactive world models! 🧞🚀🎶

This was the last project I worked on at Google 🥲, and the quality and dynamics are still so much better than the 3D creations from the latest frontier models. Bridging this gap to enable accurate, efficient, and high-quality simulations of the real world remains an open research challenge that is key to unlocking useful physical intelligence.

Congrats to the whole team, and have fun exploring with Genie 4!

Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind Oct 27

This is Genie 4, our most realistic and interactive world model yet. 🌐

Explore dynamic environments in real time to see how the scene responds, sounds, and how the people in it move, react, and speak.

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Ben Poole @poolio Oct 5

Woohoo big congrats to @KarlDeisseroth et al! Optogenetics is such an important tool for neuroscience. I was lucky to start off my PhD working with @logangrosenick @broxtronix and other great folks in the D-lab burning GPUs before it was cool on lightfield microscopy (cell.com/cell/fulltext/… & biorxiv.org/content/10.110…)

www.cell.com Neuronal Dynamics Regulating Brain and Behavioral State Transitions Brainwide imaging in zebrafish and network modeling reveal that switching from active to passive coping state arises from progressive activation of habenular neurons in response to behavioral...

The Nobel Prize Verified account @NobelPrize Oct 5

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Ben Poole @poolio Sep 22

sketch-to-simulation with Opus 5.5

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Claude Verified account @claudeai Sep 22

Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family.

It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.

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Ben Poole @poolio Sep 17

❤️🚲💑

Matt Redmond Verified account @mttrdmnd Sep 17

Got married in the park (in a bicycle parade) last weekend and @peterhartlaub put together such a lovely article about it!

sfchronicle.com/totalsf/articl…
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