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Dumitru Erhan

Google DeepMind · 2026

Dumitru Erhan researches generative media at Google DeepMind. At World’s Fair 2026, he was a senior research director and co-lead of Gemini Omni. He joined the conference’s generative media panel, which examined editing workflows, model development and evaluation.

1 conference talk

AI Engineer World's Fair 202656:59

SOTA Generative Media Panel — Dumitru Erhan, Shane Gu & Nicole Brichtova, Google DeepMind

The panel discusses generative image, video and audio models, emphasizing practical editing workflows, the limits of language as a representation, and the difficulty of evaluation. Panelists distinguish visually appealing outputs from realistic or useful ones, describe how human preferences can encourage unwanted aesthetics, and argue that expert feedback…

Dumitru Erhan · Shane Gu · Nicole Brichtova · swyx

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