Olivier Lacombe directs product management at Google DeepMind, where he focuses on Gemini serving, pre-training, and edge computing. He is known for guiding the launch of Gemma 4 under an open Apache 2.0 license.
Before DeepMind, Olivier held leadership roles at X (the moonshot factory) and Android Intelligence. He advocates for open-weight AI architectures that lower entry barriers for independent researchers. In his recent panel on democratizing AI, he broke down how accessible baseline models help organizations build custom solutions while avoiding vendor lock-in.
