Ben Poole announced that June 25, 2026 was his last day at Google, after 15 years total including internships and eight years full-time. He described growing up as a scientist at Google Brain and Google DeepMind, working across representation learning, latent-variable models, diffusion, DreamFusion, Veo, Genie, and Omni. No next destination was announced.
Ben Poole leaves Google DeepMind
Poole said June 25 was his last day at Google after 15 years total, including eight years full-time across Brain and DeepMind.