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
Can't tell you how great it is to finally be able to release and talk about this work, SIMA 2, the next step toward embodied intelligence in rich, interactive 3D worlds!
deepmind.google/sima
deepmind.google/sima
SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3D Virtual Worlds
Introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-foll…
deepmind.google
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Can't tell you how great it is to finally be able to release and talk about this work, SIMA 2, the next step toward embodied intelligence in rich, interactive 3D worlds!
deepmind.google/sima
deepmind.google/sima
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.
Reposted by Jane Wang
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...
Reposted by Jane Wang
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...
Reposted by Jane Wang
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
Reposted by Jane Wang
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
Reposted by Jane Wang
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? 🤔