Jack Parker-Holder
@jparkerholder
Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind & Honorary Lecturer @UCL_DARK interested in generating worlds from video data. Dad (👶🐶), CFC fan, BJJ. Views are my own :)
Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.
Come and work with Roberta :)
I’m building a new team at @GoogleDeepMind to work on Open-Ended Discovery! We’re looking for strong Research Scientists and Research Engineers to help us push the frontier of autonomously discovering novel artifacts such as new knowledge, capabilities, or algorithms, in an…
LLMs acing math olympiads? Cute. But BALROG is where agents fight dragons (and actual Balrogs)🐉😈 And today, Grok-4 (@grok) takes the gold 🥇 Welcome to the podium, champion!
Want to be part of a team redefining SOTA for generative video models? Excited about building models that can reach billions of users? The Veo team is hiring! We are looking for amazing researchers and engineers, in North America and Europe. Details below:
Just a typical day at GDM, no big deal :)
An advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think has officially achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad. 🥇 It solved 5️⃣ out of 6️⃣ exceptionally difficult problems, involving algebra, combinatorics, geometry and number theory. Here’s how 🧵
The automation of innovation is within reach! Delighted that my @raais talk is now available for anyone to watch, alongside an excellent blogpost summary by the inimitable @nathanbenaich.
"2025 is the year of open-endedness" at @raais, @edwardfhughes argued that we’re entering a new phase in the evolution of ai: one where open-endedness becomes the central organizing principle. Not just solving problems, but defining them. Not just predicting the next token,…
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Could Google’s Veo 3 be the start of playable world models? | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/cou…
1/8 In my first PhD paper, we tackled a major bottleneck in Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization for sequential decision-making: the need for human experts to define "behavioral diversity." We offer a novel and principled approach to solve this. 🧵👇
Super excited to have you back 🕺🫶🚀
Bit of an update! I’ve just wrapped up an incredible chapter at Runway — huge thanks to the brilliant, supportive team for everything I’ve learned. And excited to share I’ll be heading back to @_rockt’s team at GDM next week! Can’t wait to work with such an amazing group again🫶
2025 is the year of open-endedness!
a blueprint for automating innovation @edwardfhughes
Excited to talk about world models @CVPR 🌍
🎬#CVPR2025 𝐓𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 🗺️𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍 @CVPR 🔗world-model-tutorial.github.io 📅June 11 🚀Hosted by @MMLabNTU x @Kling_ai 🧠Incredible lineup of speakers: @jparkerholder @Koven_Yu @baaadas @wanfufeng @akanazawa @sherryyangML
What do you want Veo to do that it can't do now?
My @iclr_conf 2025 Keynote on "Open-Endedness, World Models, and the Automation of Innovation" is now publicly available: iclr.cc/virtual/2025/i…
Not only is Veo 3 SoTA at t2v, t2va, and i2v, it can also generate speech in other languages too.
We already saw #Veo3 is good with english. Can it handle my mother tongue, with much less speakers world-wide and a much harder pronunciation? Text is from Weöres Sándor: Szórd szét kincseid – a gazdagság legyél te magad. Nyűdd szét díszeid – a szépség legyél te magad. Feledd el…
Veo 3 debuts on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena Leaderboard in first place, with a significant lead over Google’s own Veo 2 After a day of voting, we can confidently declare Veo 3 Preview to be substantially better than Veo 2, putting Google well ahead of both Kuaishou's…
1/ Veo 3 launched today! An extraordinary feat from the team to put all the pieces together to create our SOTA audio-video generation model. It’s an incredible tool that unleashes an unparalleled level of creativity and control in the hands of our users. Veo 3 has an uncanny…
Once you turn on sound, you can't turn it off again. Excited to introduce our latest model, Veo 3, that can generate video *and* audio. It also has better quality and prompt following as our evals demonstrate, but I think the model speaks for itself :) deepmind.google/models/veo…