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This is the Deep Research prompt I used to get profiles on known Google Fellows, which was later converted into a thread and essay.

Write a detailed report covering every known Google Fellow (i.e. Level 10 or above internally). A list of them are included below, although you may find others if you can confirm that they are in fact a Google Fellow.

Write a short profile of each engineer, a few points for evidence of their extraordinary engineering prowess, most likely reasons they were promoted to Google Fellow, their most notable contributions at Google (e.g. leading major projects, invention, etc.) and an estimate of how much their direct contributions are responsible for Google's current market cap and your reasoning.

For example (this is hypothetical), if their work directly optimised Search by 10% and Search makes up roughly ~50% of Google's overall market cap (currently $1.9 trillion USD), then you can estimate their work to be valued at $95B.

Add all their contributions together for a cumulative total of enterprise value created by all Google Fellows all-time (again, in terms of contribution to market cap).

Conclude with a discussion on possible candidates that could become Google Fellows in the future, if they're not already, e.g. Noam Shazeer, Oriol Vinyals, and Ian Goodfellow. Explain what makes them good candidates, including their primary accomplishments and contributions to Google.

Feel free to ask me questions if you're not sure about anything.

Level 11: Senior Google Fellows

Jeff Dean: Google's Chief Scientist, AI lead.

Sanjay Ghemawat: Leading figure in systems infrastructure (MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, etc.).

Level 10: Google Fellows (Known Individuals)

Luiz André Barroso: (Deceased) Was a prominent Google Fellow known for his work on datacenters and compute infrastructure.

Ramanathan V. Guha: Known for work on RDF, RSS, and Schema.org.

Ramakrishnan Srikant: Known for work in data mining.

Individuals Formerly Identified as Google Fellows (May have left Google or status changed):

Amit Singhal: Led Google Search for many years, confirmed as a Fellow in a 2012 Google blog post. Left Google in 2016.

Sebastian Thrun: Founder of Google X (now X Development) and Udacity. Left Google.

Urs Hölzle: Long-time SVP of Engineering/Infrastructure. Often mentioned alongside Fellows due to his impact, though primarily identified by his executive role.

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