According to Jeff Dean on X (via @JeffDean), he joined the Latent Space podcast hosted by @latentspacepod, @swyx, and @FanaHOVA, sharing a discussion with a published summary site and video links. According to Latent Space (podcast page linked by @JeffDean), the conversation covers Google DeepMind’s Gemini progress, model evaluation practices, safety alignment, and scaling strategy, highlighting practical implications for enterprises adopting multimodal AI and long-context assistants. As reported by Latent Space, Dean outlines how foundation model capabilities translate into product features across Google Search, Workspace, and Android, and discusses the economics of AI infrastructure, including TPU optimization and serving efficiency, which can lower inference costs for production workloads. According to the same source, the episode also examines open model dynamics, research-to-product transfer, and benchmarks, offering guidance to AI teams on model selection, cost-performance tradeoffs, and opportunities in tooling for retrieval, evaluation, and guardrails.