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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 · 05/02/2026
📈 My thoughts on Google Q4 earnings: Serving costs down 78%, efficiency up 4.5x. The math behind the AI race. Compute efficiency is one of the most important metrics in the AI race. Spending smarter, not just more. Huge thanks to the Googlers making this happen! 🚀 www.linkedin.com/posts/hoilam...
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#google #deepmind #generativeai #techinnovation #teamgoogle | Hoi Lam
📈 Google Q4 earnings: Serving costs down 78%, efficiency up 4.5x. The math behind the AI race. From 750M Gemini App monthly users to ~350 Cloud customers processing over 100 billion tokens each in De...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We are still learning and optimising the information flow from our suppliers to our data center team to our users. I'm really happy that we can contribute to energy resilience for the communities that are working with us. Thank you for your partnership! blog.google/inside-googl... end/
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How we’re making data centers more flexible to benefit power grids
An update on how we’re developing flexible data center capabilities to support power grids and build a sustainable, affordable energy system.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
AI doesn't need to be zero sum. "Demand response" is one such example. ⚡ By partnering with our electric suppliers, we are able to unlock more capacity AND respond to local demand spikes. It's a win-win!
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
More details: blog.google/products/gem...
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Try Deep Think in the Gemini app
Deep Think utilizes extended, parallel thinking and novel reinforcement learning techniques for significantly improved problem-solving.
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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 · 28/07/2025
Tesla going with Samsung is really bad news for Intel. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/s...
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Elon Musk confirms Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion chip contract with Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics shares opened 3.5% higher after the company disclosed the contract to supply semiconductors to a major global corporation.
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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🙌 Calling all early-stage founders: DeepMind and Google Cloud are organizing a startup founders forum in November! It's going to be two full days of technical presentations, feedback sessions, prototyping, demos, and insights into product roadmaps. 👇 Apply below: blog.google/outreach-ini...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
As AI gets more advanced, interpretability will become an increasingly important part of safety. So congratulations to the team on advancing the SoTA and keeping the results interpretable. Well done!🥳 end/
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🥇 I am so happy to see the Google DeepMind Gemini team **OFFICIALLY** achieved gold-medal performance. Not only did we get 5 out of 6 questions correct. What's more amazing is the official IMO graders find those answers to be clear, precise and easy to follow! 1/ deepmind.google/discover/blo...
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Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad
Our advanced model officially achieved a gold-medal level performance on problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the world’s most prestigious competition for young...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Personal view: The UK is too small a country to compete with the US and China on its own. 100k AI chips by 2030 is uncompetitive. We need to work with our EU friends if we really want to be "AI makers and not AI takers". #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺 on.ft.com/43RMZ1A
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Nvidia chief says UK lacks digital infrastructure as Keir Starmer pledges £1bn for AI
Jensen Huang seeks ‘sovereign’ artificial intelligence deals that diversify US chip giant’s business away from Big Tech groups
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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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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
That's a wrap for day #4 @aamasconf.bsky.social . I did not present anything today but I am honored that we received the best paper award! Thanks to everyone who made it happen! 👇 1/2
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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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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I failed to post this last week, but it’s one of the best op-eds you’ll read all year. Two politicians with *wildly* different orientations but a common thread of belief in the nature of citizenship and nationality. (They’re also 100% right obvs.) on.ft.com/3GS1rPl
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Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish
Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one else’s
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I am saddened by protesters against Israel's entry for #Eurovision. Israel is not Russia. Israel didn't start the war. More importantly, most Israelis (68%) wants a hostage deal that will end the war. If we want peace, protest against Netanyahu, not Israel. www.timesofisrael.com/poll-61-of-i...
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Poll: 61% of Israelis fear for democracy, 66% say internal rift is greatest threat
Large majority continues to favor ending Gaza war to secure hostages' release, 54% think politics are reason for continued fighting, Channel 12 survey finds
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Quick recap on this week's elections: 🇨🇦 Right wing populist defeated. 🇦🇺 Right wing populist defeated. 🇬🇧 Right wing populist screwed up our economy with Brexit, why don't we give them another go?🤔
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Breaking: US economy...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Getting ready for MAGA to reheat all the Brexit arguments that: a) it's short term pain for long term gain, b) long term = next month -> next year -> next election -> your children -> your grandchildren -> [repeat] -> heat death of the universe. www.ft.com/content/104e...
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US economy contracts at 0.3% rate as Trump tariffs prompt import surge
Annualised first-quarter figure comes below expectations and contrasts with previous growth
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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 · 28/04/2025
🇨🇦 Canadian friends. No matter what Pierre Poilievre said, Trump will interpret every vote for the Conservatives as a vote for Canada to become the 51st state. If you value your independence, voting Liberal is the only way. Good luck, Your friends in Europe #CanadaStrong
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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 · 26/04/2025
Prior to Trump and what he did to Ukraine, I was planning a family holiday in the US. Now I am not...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is Brexit but worse. I didn't think it was possible but Trump did it.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
If China asks for all tariffs including for other countries to be dropped, they will be the new world leader.
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Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez @gortizji.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Heading to Singapore for ICLR 🇸🇬 Looking forward to catch up with friends and meet new people. Ping me if you want to chat about watermarking, model merging, Google DeepMind or AI science in general. I’d be very happy to meet! 🤓
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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 · 09/04/2025
I am not sure the checks and balances work any more, e.g. signalgate and ignoring court orders for deportation. This is the time of King Trump.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
They put this in a stock filing but not on the ballot paper? Why America? Why?
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is how I felt when the UK chose Brexit and then again when we elected Boris Johnson...
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy Liberation Day!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Stock market: 👊🇺🇸🔥 www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/t...
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Trump to impose higher-than-expected tariffs, markets drop: Live updates
Trump unveils new tariffs at 4 p.m. ET Rose Garden event dubbed "Make America Wealthy Again." Today's White House "liberation day" sparks inflation concerns.
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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 · 31/03/2025
Turns out there are "WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE" (all caps intended) just not where Trump / Elon said.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
For those parents who are traumatised by Adolescence. You should watch Breeders next to balance it out.😅 www.netflix.com/gb/title/812...
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Watch Breeders | Netflix
Already overwhelmed by life with busy careers and two young kids, Paul and Ally face new, unexpected changes and challenges of adulthood and parenting.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A lot of DeepSeek's models are running on other people's infrastructure so I won't judge them purely on app store rankings. BUT we will see if hardware matters as the new Google Trillium TPUs, Nvidia GB200/300, and Amazon Trainium2 are deployed *at scale* in 2H 2025 / 1H 2026.
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Hoi Lam @hoitab.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Do not take the bait Eric. Waiting for Godot has been the only play where I wished, I really wished an asteroid would come crashing down in the theatre and finished me off... I love Keanu Reeves but do not take the bait.
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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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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding. Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇
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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 · 21/03/2025
One substation went down and London is in chaos. I can't begin to imagine how Ukrainians feel when their power infrastructure is being targeted by Putin every day.🇺🇦🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
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Heathrow Airport latest: Shutdown causes flight chaos and leaves thousands stranded
The fire which knocked out power to Heathrow is still burning, as sources tell the BBC counter-terrorism police are investigating as a
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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
Wait until they find out about Google's TPU v5p - 8,960 accelerators in a single pod. Over 4 dense BF16 EFLOPS in a pod that was GA... in 2023. cloud.google.com/blog/product...
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Introducing Cloud TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer | Google Cloud Blog
The new TPU v5p is a core element of AI Hypercomputer, which is tuned, managed, and orchestrated specifically for gen AI training and serving.
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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
Argh... I should have known you are here and should have brought my Nvidia Way book for you to sign!🤦
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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 · 16/03/2025
Uber says 6 mins, actual 12 mins Waymo says 15 mins, actual 12 mins. This is a product design choice.
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