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ASK HN: Why Google's Gemini 2.5 paper has 3295 authors?

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Because 3295 people worked on Gemini. From the paper (page 61):

> The development of Gemini is a large-scale collaborative effort involving over 3000 individuals across Google, including researchers, engineers, and operations staff. These individuals contributed their hard work and expertise across diverse areas, from foundational research and the development of model architecture, data, training, and infrastructure, through to evaluation and ensuring safety and security. We gratefully acknowledge the dedication and hard work of each contributor in making Gemini a reality.

that is obvious, however one must wonder what is means when 14 pages of a paper are simply credit names...

I was never fond of the "Hollywood credit list", and it seems like this culture entered our trade.

If a paper is about

   Advanced Reasoning
   Multimodality
   Long Context
   Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

then perhaps we should limit the "authors" to those who contributed directly to the topic.

I am convinced a large amount of those in the list are from DevOps, DevEx and DevRel (let alone "Digital" and "Product")

Could also be a way to obscure the core team to make it harder to poach - right now the key scientists are worth 8 figures

sounds about right.

the irony is you can use the very tool (Gemini) to extract LinkedIn profiles of all names and understand well who's doing what.

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