Eli Collins

Eli Collins is Vice President of Product at Google DeepMind, where he leads multiple product teams responsible for generative AI models and platforms including Gemini, Gemma, Imagen, Lyria, and Veo, as well as the Gemini App and AI Studio. He joined Google in September 2019 as VP of Product for Research and became part of the unified Google DeepMind leadership team when Google Brain and DeepMind merged in April 2023. He is best known for translating cutting-edge AI research into scalable real-world products and for guiding the deployment of generative AI video and language models into consumer-facing applications such as YouTube Shorts. Prior to Google, he served as Chief Technologist at Cloudera, helping guide the company from Series B through its IPO.