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Nano Banana engineering lead on Sequoia 'Training Data' podcast; credits meticulous data curation; Imagen 3 core contributor source
Needs the data for a model; writes the spec.
How Google DeepMind buys data
Imagen 3 report (2024-08) collected 366,569 ratings from 3,225 raters in 71 countries via an unnamed 'external platform' under GDM data-enrichment policy (living wage). Veo 3.1 page cites human side-by-sides on MovieGenBench (1,003 prompts), VBench I2V and internal sets. Nano Banana leads (2025) describe large-scale human evals plus trusted testers and artist reviews; Gemini Data team job post (2026) covers data curation/generation/evaluation.
Aug 2026: Kavukcuoglu runs GDM incl. Gemini as SVP; Hassabis chair. Gemini has Data, Post-Training, Safety Post-Training and Model Behavior teams (job posts); Gemini app sits inside GDM under Josh Woodward. Gen-media (Imagen/Nano Banana/Veo/Flow) has product lead Brichtova and modality research leads (Wang, Erhan).
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