gemini_authors.py

# /// script
# dependencies = [
#   "requests<3",
#   "rich",
# ]
# ///

# Code to reveal the easter egg in the Gemini 2.5 paper (https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.06261)
# Take the first letter of each author to spell out
# "GEMINI MODELS CANT THINK AND GET BACK TO YOU IN A FLASH"
# Run with uv using `uv run gemini_authors.py`

import requests

# Fetch paper metadata using arxiv-txt
arxiv_url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06261"
arxiv_txt_url = arxiv_url.replace("arxiv.org", "arxiv-txt.org/raw/")

# Extract the authors list (look for everything after '# Authors' heading)
authors: str = requests.get(arxiv_txt_url).text.split("# Authors")[1].split("\n")[1]

# Print the first letter of each authors (up to 43rd)
print([author.strip()[0] for author in authors.split(",")][0:43])

#Expected output:
# ['G', 'E', 'M', 'I', 'N', 'I', 'M', 'O', 'D', 'E', 'L', 'S', 'C', 'A', 'N', 'T', 'H', 'I', 'N', 'K', 'A', 'N', 'D', 'G', 'E', 'T', 'B', 'A', 'C', 'K', 'T', 'O', 'Y', 'O', 'U', 'I', 'N', 'A', 'F', 'L', 'A', 'S', 'H']