Logan Kilpatrick

A year of Gemini progress + what comes next — Logan Kilpatrick, Google DeepMind

Jul 10, 2025 · 11:58

Logan Kilpatrick, head of product for Google AI Studio at DeepMind, announces the final update to Gemini 2.5 Pro, which achieves state-of-the-art results on Aider and HLE benchmarks. He details Google's 50x increase in AI inference over the past year, driven by merging research and product teams into DeepMind. The episode outlines Gemini's evolution toward a universal assistant that unifies Google products, with upcoming features including proactivity, native audio and video capabilities (Veo), and smaller models. Kilpatrick also previews developer-focused updates: a SOTA embeddings model, a deep research API, and Veo 3 and Imagine 4 in the API, alongside repositioning AI Studio as a dedicated developer platform.

See, Hear, Speak, Draw: Logan Kilpatrick & Simón Fishman

Oct 24, 2023 · 18:43

OpenAI's Simón Fishman and Logan Kilpatrick argue that 2024 will be the year of multimodal models, showcasing how text can currently bridge vision, audio, and image generation. They demo a DALL-E vision loop where GPT-4 with vision describes an image, DALL-E 3 generates a synthetic version, then the models compare and iterate to improve accuracy—all in roughly 50 lines of code. Another demo extracts frames from a video, uses GPT-4 with vision to describe them, combines with Whisper's transcript, and generates a blog post with matching DALL-E images, making video content more accessible. They emphasize that while today's multimodal capabilities are separate, future unified models will directly reason across modalities, eliminating the need for manual integration.