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Shawn Wang: evaluation

18 Feb 2025 Latent Space The Inventors of Deep Research

“I would say I was very keen on, I think even at the end of last year, people were already saying it was one of the most exciting agents that was coming out of Google.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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18 Feb 2025
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…Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks for making the trip up. I was fortunate enough to be one of the early beta testers of Deep Research when he came out. I would say I was very keen on, I think even at the end of last year, people were already saying it was one of the most exciting agents that was coming out of Google. You know that previously we had on Ryza and Usama from the Novoca LM team. And I think this is an increasing trend that Gemini and Google are shipping interesting user-facing products that use AI. So congrats on your success so far. Yeah, it's been great. Thanks so much for having us here. Yeah. Yeah, thanks for making the trip up. And I'm also excited for your talk that is happening next week. Obviously, we have to talk about what exactly it is, but I'll ask you towards the end. So basically, okay, you know, we have the screen up. Maybe we just start at a high level for people who don't yet know. Like, what is Deep Research? Sure. So Deep Research is a feature where Gemini can act as your personal research assistant to help you learn about any topic that you want more deeply. It's really helpful for those queries. So you want to go from zero to 50 really fast on a new thing. And the way it works is it takes your query, browses the web for about five minutes, and then outputs a research report for you to review and ask follow-up questions. This is one of the first times, you know, something takes about five, six minutes trying to perform your research. So there's a few challenges that brings. Like, you want to make sure you're spending that time in the computer doing what the user wants. So there's some ways of the UX design that we can talk about. As we go through an example, and then there's also challenges in the browsers, the web is super fragmented and being able to plan iteratively and as, as you pass through this noisy information is a challenge by itself.…

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