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Shane Gu

Researcher, Gemini RL / Omni Thinking · Google DeepMind

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Why they are on the map

Named as working on Gemini RL and Omni Thinking on AI Engineer leads panel with Veo/Nano Banana leads 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).

Full dossier pending

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