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Oriol Vinyals is a leading figure in artificial intelligence, whose work has fundamentally shaped modern machine learning. His research spans key areas including large-scale distributed systems, generalist AI agents, and generative video modeling. Vinyals is perhaps best known as a co-author of the seminal "TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems" (2016), which introduced the open-source framework that has become a cornerstone of the AI industry, amassing nearly 10,000 citations. This contribution alone revolutionized how researchers and engineers develop and deploy machine learning algorithms across diverse hardware. More recently, he has pushed the boundaries of embodied intelligence. As a key contributor to "A Generalist Agent" (2022), he introduced Gato, a groundbreaking multi-modal, multi-task, and multi-embodiment policy that operates as a single, unified agent. His ongoing work in robotics, exemplified by the "Gemini Robotics" report (2025), continues to bridge the gap between powerful digital models and physical-world applications. Through these innovations, Vinyals has consistently demonstrated a talent for creating foundational tools and architectures that expand the very possibilities of AI.