PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jimmy Yan

Jimmy Yan works at Google DeepMind and is a coauthor of VideoPoet, a language model for video generation that won a Best Paper award at ICML 2024. VideoPoet appeared on arXiv in December 2023 with Google authors, and it uses a decoder-only transformer to synthesize video with matching audio from images, video, text and audio inputs. In 2024, Yan also coauthored "Greedy Growing Enables High-Resolution Pixel-Based Diffusion Models", a method for training image diffusion models without a super-resolution cascade. The October 2025 Gemini Robotics 1.5 report from Google DeepMind lists him among its authors.

Timeline

  1. December 2023

    Coauthoring VideoPoet at Google

    In December 2023, he is among the Google authors of VideoPoet, a language model that synthesizes high-quality video with matching audio from a large variety of conditioning signals. It uses a decoder-only transformer that processes images, videos, text and audio.

  2. 2024

    A Best Paper at ICML

    VideoPoet, the paper he coauthors, is published in the proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning in 2024. ICML 2024 names it a Best Paper.

  3. 2024

    Greedy growing for diffusion models

    In May 2024, he is among the authors of "Greedy Growing Enables High-Resolution Pixel-Based Diffusion Models", a method for training high-resolution image diffusion models in a single stage, without a super-resolution cascade. The paper appears in TMLR in 2024.

  4. October 2025

    The Gemini Robotics 1.5 report

    In October 2025, he is among the authors of the Gemini Robotics 1.5 report from the Gemini Robotics Team at Google DeepMind. The report introduces Gemini Robotics 1.5, a multi-embodiment vision-language-action model, and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, an embodied reasoning model.

  5. As of October 2026

    Working at Google DeepMind

    He works at Google DeepMind and lists computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence as his research interests.

  1. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Google. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Google. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.
  3. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes Google. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.
  4. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes Google. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.

Sources and credits

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  1. [2312.14125] VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation (arXiv HTML) arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. ICML 2024 Awards icml.cc. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation (PMLR 235) proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. [2405.16759] Greedy Growing Enables High-Resolution Pixel-Based Diffusion Models arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Yan, Jimmy | ML Anthology mlanthology.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. [2510.03342] Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer (arXiv HTML) arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. Jimmy Yan - Google Scholar scholar.google.com. Checked 22 October 2026.