Oriol Vinyals
Oriol Vinyals is a Spanish machine learning researcher and a principal scientist at Google DeepMind. He co-invented the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model for machine translation and co-authored the widely influential knowledge distillation paper with Geoffrey Hinton and Jeff Dean. He led the AlphaStar project, which achieved Grandmaster-level play in StarCraft II, and as of 2024 serves as a technical lead on Google's Gemini project.
“You have Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals' new lab... obviously these are like incredibly senior people with like decades of experience.”
Source→“He's being joined by Google senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat, DeepMind vice president Oriol Vinyals, and Google Brain co-founder Quoc Le.”
“Research scientist at Google DeepMind. Co-authored the distillation paper with Dean and Hinton that was initially rejected but became a cornerstone technique in modern AI.”
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