DreamBooth creator Nataniel Ruiz leaves Google DeepMind, teasing a surprising new direction
natanielruizg · x · 2026-10-15
Nataniel Ruiz, creator of DreamBooth and researcher on Google DeepMind's Omni team, announced his departure after 4+ years at Google, hinting his next venture is "not images, language, video or robotics."
- Joined Google Research as a 2022 summer intern, where DreamBooth was born; personalization and finetuning of generative models became core to image/video generators
- Mentored 12+ student researchers; spent the last year on GDM's Omni team building native personalization
- Shared early DreamBooth demos generating a specific blue mandala stone across contexts, acknowledging appearance preservation wasn't perfect then
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