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Hoi Lam

@hoitab.bsky.social
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Google DeepMind / Gemini, Hardware Group Product Manager. IET expert panel member. Ex-Android, Glass, Chromcast, equity research, space engineer.

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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
🥳 Introducing Google Gemini 2.5 Deep Think trained on Google TPUs. Our team pushed SoTA inference compute harder than ever before. It's a variation of the model that won gold in International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) but optimised for day-to-day use. Now available to Gemini Ultra subscribers.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
In celebration of the TACO (Trump Always Chicken Out) trade 🌮. 📍Chilango, London, UK
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Terrorism is stupid but this one is extra. The event the couple attended was an inter-faith effort to send humanitarian aid to innocent Palestinians. Now Netanyahu will use this as a cover to hit Gaza harder.😢 Two Israeli embassy staff killed after Washington DC shooting www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🇨🇦 Congratulations, Canada! I don't know if you could have delivered a stronger rejection to Trump than this. Wow. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr... #CanadaStrong
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Or you can get him as your president... or king but not the hands off kind... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
🍻Congratulations Liverpool on the historic win. BTW that's a Google Pixel 9 Pro!😁
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
♠️♥️Just watched a gripping play about business, addiction, and parenting. Congratulations to the cast and production for Dealer's Choice at the Donmar's Warehouse in London. 👉 Go catch it if you get the chance: www.donmarwarehouse.com/whats-on/194...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
⚡ Introducing Ironwood, Google's 7th generation TPU! Each chip boasts 4,614 FP8 TFLOPS, and the new pod features 9,216 highly connected chips (up from 8,960). Pilot plans are in place, and we can't wait to bring it online this year. Thank you TPU team! Find out more: blog.google/products/goo...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Worked til too late and then couldn't sleep... On the plus side, this is my morning run. Good morning, London! 😎 📍 Primrose Hill, London
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Remember when America was the good guy saving the world? 🇺🇸 #TopGun
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🥂 A little champagne this afternoon at the Google DeepMind London office to toast the Gemini 2.5 launch*. 👉 You can join the buzz and try our state of the art thinking model here: aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/... * Our other offices are also celebrating but probably not with Champagne at 8am 😁
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Do you feel powerless reading all the headlines? It's the bonus season in tech and finance. If you are able, please consider donating to Ukraine. Remember to check our company's donation matching schemes. They might double your donation! It's time for deeds and not just words. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🇺🇸🙏America, please do better with public transport during conference season... #gtc25
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Feeling the AGI this morning.😊 📍Google Gradient Canopy, Mountain View
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Some pre keynote shots fired.🤣 #gtc25
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
One hour to go for Jensen's Nvidia GTC keynote. #GTC25
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
With all the sensors on the outside, I'm assuming the Waymo windscreen wiper is only activated for the passenger's benefit. One of the things we can do without in a fully automated future?🤔
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hello, San Francisco!👋 📍Mission Dolores Park
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Hello, "sunny" California!😅 I'm around for a week and hope to bump into some of you at Nvidia GTC next week.👋😊
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Remember when Nazis are butts of the joke? Let's keep it that way! Can't wait for the production of Springtime for Putin.😜
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It's Research Week at Google DeepMind. 🤞🏽 we will create the next paradigm shift.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Something I have been suggesting to Nvidia for a while and it has finally happened! Hello, Nvidia DIGITS / GB10! nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-... #CES2025 #Nvidia
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
🥳 Happy New Year from London!
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
🥳 Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Just finished @firstadopter.bsky.social's the Nvidia Way. Wow. The story is fantastic and it was really well written. Tae made it a really easy read. Congratulations!👏 I'm not a gamer so I really got to know and invested (a very small amount) in Nvidia from 2017/18 for its CUDA AI investment. 1/
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🥂 Congratulations to my… colleagues(?) Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Today they are being presented the medals, I can't wait to see them in person. We are also celebrating at Google DeepMind offices. In other news, my meetings have been going smoother than usual😅
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nature Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Willow intro video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7pp... Google Blog: blog.google/technology/r... The last contains this little passage below. Is David Deutsch the real Marvel Jesus? 🤔 /end
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
📢 Google Quantum AI announced Willow, its latest quantum chip with 105 qubits. The bit that I was really impressed by was the progress in Quantum Error Correction - we are now able to REDUCE the amount of error as we scale up. Wow. The depth of the technical bench across Google is unreal. 1/
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Wow. Can't believe it's one year after our first Gemini model release. Today, we are "crushing it" according to LMSYS leaderboard.🥳 The latest 1206 release is #1 in ALL categories. You can try it here: aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
So... I guess we will be making an AI game.😅
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
📢 A New large scale foundation world model, Genie 2 from Google DeepMind just landed. Congrats to the team! The obvious use-case is rapid prototyping of new experiences. The other use-case is the opposite. Expose an agent to lots of new worlds and scaling up testing: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
As expected, AWS just made Trainium2 generally available which is great news for the ML accelerator space. Congratulations to the Trainium team! This contrasts with MSFT's no update on its one year old Maia accelerator two weeks ago. There seems to be no route to make Maia available to developers.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Watching AWS's re:Invent livetream. This is why x86 (and Intel) is not growing / declining. This is what Amazon is telling their customer if they switch to ARM:
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Good morning, London!😊
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Sadly if you visit the link on the slide, it linked to the press release from last year. 2. Google TPU + Google DeepMind - Can't say too much 😜 but unsurprisingly we work together on current and future systems. We use TPUs for training and inference. TPUs are available to external customers. 2/
Google Trillium TPU
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What's hard about new hardware? It's software. Beyond GPUs, our industry has (at least) three teams working on the next gen AI hardware. 1. Microsoft + OpenAI - In the Ignite conference last week, I was hoping to see more from the Azure Maia platform. Maybe VM availability for developers? Nope. 1/
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