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Researcher
Author of the Dreamer series of model-based reinforcement-learning agents, which learn a latent world model and plan inside it. About ten years at Google, latterly as a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind, which his own site still lists. The Information reported in March 2026 that he and Wilson Yan are raising a $100M-plus seed for Embo, a robotics world-model startup; that is marked as reported, not confirmed.
Known for Dreamer (V1 to V4); PlaNet; DayDreamer