Jane Wang
@janexwang.bsky.social
Staff research scientist at Google DeepMind. AI and neuro.
Former physicist, current human.
Find more at www.janexwang.com
Former physicist, current human.
Find more at www.janexwang.com
Nice tweet thread from @dannypsawyer on work exploring how well frontier models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini explore in interactive, multi-turn settings - to be presented at NeurIPS workshops this December!
Happy to announce that our work has been accepted to workshops on Multi-turn Interactions and Embodied World Models at #NeurIPS2025! Frontier foundation models are incredible, but how well can they explore in interactive environments?
Paper👇
arxiv.org/abs/2412.06438
🧵1/13
Paper👇
arxiv.org/abs/2412.06438
🧵1/13
October 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Nice tweet thread from @dannypsawyer on work exploring how well frontier models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini explore in interactive, multi-turn settings - to be presented at NeurIPS workshops this December!
Social media is optimised for engagement. Chatbots are optimised to be useful. That makes all the difference
This might be a hot take, but I think social media has done much more damage to humanity than AGI has the potential to do. At this point, I think AGI will likely be a net positive by ameliorating some of the catastrophic effects of social media.
August 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Social media is optimised for engagement. Chatbots are optimised to be useful. That makes all the difference
This might be a hot take, but I think social media has done much more damage to humanity than AGI has the potential to do. At this point, I think AGI will likely be a net positive by ameliorating some of the catastrophic effects of social media.
August 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This might be a hot take, but I think social media has done much more damage to humanity than AGI has the potential to do. At this point, I think AGI will likely be a net positive by ameliorating some of the catastrophic effects of social media.
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Genie 3: A general world model
Google announced Genie 3, a world model that can generate 3D scenes in real-time, meaning that it can be used to create 3D experiences that you can immediately use. Like a dynamic video game limited by your own imagination
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Google announced Genie 3, a world model that can generate 3D scenes in real-time, meaning that it can be used to create 3D experiences that you can immediately use. Like a dynamic video game limited by your own imagination
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...
deepmind.google
August 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Genie 3: A general world model
Google announced Genie 3, a world model that can generate 3D scenes in real-time, meaning that it can be used to create 3D experiences that you can immediately use. Like a dynamic video game limited by your own imagination
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Google announced Genie 3, a world model that can generate 3D scenes in real-time, meaning that it can be used to create 3D experiences that you can immediately use. Like a dynamic video game limited by your own imagination
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
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NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS.
Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
eurips.cc
Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
eurips.cc
eurips.cc
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
eurips.cc
July 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS.
Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
eurips.cc
Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...
eurips.cc
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Key-value memory is an important concept in modern machine learning (e.g., transformers). Ila Fiete, Kazuki Irie, and I have written a paper showing how key-value memory provides a way of thinking about memory organization in the brain:
arxiv.org/abs/2501.02950
arxiv.org/abs/2501.02950
Key-value memory in the brain
Classical models of memory in psychology and neuroscience rely on similarity-based retrieval of stored patterns, where similarity is a function of retrieval cues and the stored patterns. While parsimo...
arxiv.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Key-value memory is an important concept in modern machine learning (e.g., transformers). Ila Fiete, Kazuki Irie, and I have written a paper showing how key-value memory provides a way of thinking about memory organization in the brain:
arxiv.org/abs/2501.02950
arxiv.org/abs/2501.02950
Reposted by Jane Wang
Reposted by Jane Wang
Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.
January 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.
A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...
Felix — Jane X. Wang
From the moment I heard him give a talk, I knew I wanted to work with Felix . His ideas about generalization and situatedness made explicit thoughts that had been swirling around in my head, incohe...
www.janexwang.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...
Merry Christmas Bluesky! 💙
December 25, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Merry Christmas Bluesky! 💙
Looking forward to speaking at the CALM workshop today at 930! I'll be talking about causal reasoning in foundation agents #neurips2024
calm-workshop-2024.github.io
calm-workshop-2024.github.io
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First Workshop on Causality and Large Models (C♥️LM) @ NeurIPS 2024
calm-workshop-2024.github.io
December 14, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Looking forward to speaking at the CALM workshop today at 930! I'll be talking about causal reasoning in foundation agents #neurips2024
calm-workshop-2024.github.io
calm-workshop-2024.github.io
(From Feb. 10, 2021):
Introducing a benchmark task for meta-reinforcement learning: Alchemy! Train agents or play it yourself, this environment comes with interesting latent structure that encourages experimentation and structure learning.
github.com/google-deepm...
neurips.cc/virtual/2021...
Introducing a benchmark task for meta-reinforcement learning: Alchemy! Train agents or play it yourself, this environment comes with interesting latent structure that encourages experimentation and structure learning.
github.com/google-deepm...
neurips.cc/virtual/2021...
December 6, 2024 at 8:25 PM
(From Feb. 10, 2021):
Introducing a benchmark task for meta-reinforcement learning: Alchemy! Train agents or play it yourself, this environment comes with interesting latent structure that encourages experimentation and structure learning.
github.com/google-deepm...
neurips.cc/virtual/2021...
Introducing a benchmark task for meta-reinforcement learning: Alchemy! Train agents or play it yourself, this environment comes with interesting latent structure that encourages experimentation and structure learning.
github.com/google-deepm...
neurips.cc/virtual/2021...
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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 🧠.
December 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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 🧠.
When will Bluesky get a "trending" feature? I always enjoyed looking at what an entire country was thinking about at any given moment 😄
December 2, 2024 at 9:49 PM
When will Bluesky get a "trending" feature? I always enjoyed looking at what an entire country was thinking about at any given moment 😄
Applications are open for student researcher positions at Google DeepMind for 2025! Due date Dec 13
www.google.com/about/career...
www.google.com/about/career...
Student Researcher, 2025 — Google Careers
www.google.com
November 27, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Applications are open for student researcher positions at Google DeepMind for 2025! Due date Dec 13
www.google.com/about/career...
www.google.com/about/career...
The speed of growth on this platform is insane! Really feels like it's hit a critical point. At what point can we just consider it a clone of Twitter?
November 23, 2024 at 12:38 AM
The speed of growth on this platform is insane! Really feels like it's hit a critical point. At what point can we just consider it a clone of Twitter?
Great list!
Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack.
go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD
go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD
November 20, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Great list!
Now that I've moved over here, I'll start by introducing some of my major pieces of research, starting with the most recent, SIMA: A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Tech report: arxiv.org/abs/2404.10179
Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Tech report: arxiv.org/abs/2404.10179
A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Introducing SIMA, a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
deepmind.google
November 15, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Now that I've moved over here, I'll start by introducing some of my major pieces of research, starting with the most recent, SIMA: A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Tech report: arxiv.org/abs/2404.10179
Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Tech report: arxiv.org/abs/2404.10179
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To help find people at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Of course let me know if I missed someone or you’d like to be added 🧪 🧠
#neuroskyence
go.bsky.app/CAfmKQs
#neuroskyence
go.bsky.app/CAfmKQs
November 13, 2024 at 3:26 PM
To help find people at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Of course let me know if I missed someone or you’d like to be added 🧪 🧠
#neuroskyence
go.bsky.app/CAfmKQs
#neuroskyence
go.bsky.app/CAfmKQs
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If you're an RL researcher or RL adjacent, pipe up to make sure I've added you here!
go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg
go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg
November 9, 2024 at 4:42 PM
If you're an RL researcher or RL adjacent, pipe up to make sure I've added you here!
go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg
go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg
One of strongest takeaways I have from this election: people have no idea what tariffs are
November 8, 2024 at 1:33 PM
One of strongest takeaways I have from this election: people have no idea what tariffs are
But how will I know who to follow without blue checks to let me know who's paying $8/month? 🤔
December 12, 2023 at 11:46 PM
But how will I know who to follow without blue checks to let me know who's paying $8/month? 🤔