Logan Kilpatrick is an

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software engineer who is the product lead for

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AI Studio. Before joining Google in 2024, Kilpatrick led developer relations at

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Career

Logan Kilpatrick worked as machine-learning engineer at

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, advised

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policy, and also worked at

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, before joining

November 2022, where he led developer relations until March 2024. He joined

in April 2024, to work on

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API through Google AI Studio, where he said would become "the best home for developers".

Views

In December 2024, Kilpatrick said he believes that aiming straight for

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(ASI) without focusing on intermediate milestones was "looking more and more probable by the month." He believes that scaling up test-time compute is a "good indication" of the possibility of reaching ASI directly. He is an advocate for the

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