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Google Unveils new AI-Powered Video Creation App, Security, and Workflow Enhancements for Workspace

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Chris McKay• April 9, 2024 • 2 min read

Vids will sit alongside our other productivity tools like Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It will initially be available in Google Workspace Labs in June 2024, with plans to eventually roll it out to customers with Gemini for Workspace subscriptions.

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Google Unveils Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, Can Generate Live Images

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Chris McKay• April 9, 2024 • 1 min read

In addition to image generation and editing, Imagen on Vertex AI offers visual captioning, providing text descriptions of images, and Visual Question Answering (VQA), which delivers answers to questions about an image.

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NVIDIA and Google Cloud Join Forces to Help Startups Accelerate AI Innovation

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Chris McKay• April 9, 2024 • 2 min read

The collaboration combines the benefits of Google Cloud and NVIDIA Inception, offering cloud credits, go-to-market support, and technical expertise to thousands of startups.

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Google Unveils Axion, Custom Arm-Based Chips for Data Centers

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Chris McKay• April 9, 2024 • 2 min read

Axion promises improved performance, energy efficiency, and sustainability for cloud computing.

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Google Upgrades Android Studio's AI-Assistant with Gemini Pro

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Chris McKay• April 8, 2024 • 1 min read

Studio bot assists developers by generating code snippets, providing relevant resources, and sharing best practices.

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Tech Giants Push Boundaries to Access AI Training Data

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Chris McKay• April 7, 2024 • 2 min read

AI systems rely on vast amounts of data for training and operation, and the methods used to obtain this data are not always ethical.

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Google's AI Sprinters Report Offers Roadmap for Emerging Markets

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Richard Banfield• April 3, 2024 • 2 min read

The report calls for a collective push towards AI integration, urging governments, international bodies, and development agencies to view AI as an integral component of their development strategies.

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Google DeepMind's New Research Shows LLMs Can Outperform Humans in Fact-Checking

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Richard Banfield• March 29, 2024 • 2 min read

The research introduces a novel method for evaluating long-form factuality in LLMs, demonstrating that bigger models are more factual and that LLMs are 20 times cheaper than human annotators.

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Google's VideoPrism Is a General Purpose Model that Understands What It Sees

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Chris McKay• March 25, 2024 • 2 min read

VideoPrism can handle a wide range of tasks, including classification, localization, retrieval, captioning and question answering.

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Google DeepMind and Liverpool Team Up on TacticAI: An AI Assistant for Corner Kick Strategy

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Chris McKay• March 20, 2024 • 2 min read

Blind evaluations with Liverpool FC's experts found that TacticAI's suggestions were indistinguishable from real tactics and were preferred 90% of the time over existing setups.

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YouTube Introduces AI-Generated Content Labeling Tool for Creators

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Richard Banfield• March 18, 2024 • 2 min read

The disclosures will appear as labels in the expanded description or on the front of the video player, depending on the sensitivity of the topics covered.

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Apple Exploring AI Partnerships with Google and OpenAI

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Chris McKay• March 18, 2024 • 2 min read

If the deal comes to fruition, it will likely result in a hybrid approach. Apple will focus on developing smaller models that can run on its devices, possibly with an API that allows developers to access certain functionalities without the need to download models independently.

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Meet SIMA: Google's New AI that Can Play Video Games with You

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Chris McKay• March 13, 2024 • 3 min read

The research is building towards more general AI systems and agents that can understand and safely carry out a wide range of tasks in a way that is helpful to people online and in the real world.

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Google Releases Derm Foundation and Path Foundation: Domain-Specific Tools for Dermatology and Pathology Embeddings

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Chris McKay• March 8, 2024 • 2 min read

These tools aim to facilitate the development of custom machine learning models for specialized medical imaging domains, requiring less data and computational resources compared to traditional methods.

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Google CEO Addresses Gemini AI Controversy, Vows Changes

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Chris McKay• February 28, 2024 • 3 min read

Google confirmed the memo and outlined a clear set of actions to address the issue, including structural changes, updated product guidelines, improved launch processes, robust evaluations and red-teaming, and technical recommendations.

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Google Apologizes and Explains What Went Wrong with Gemini's Embarassing Image Generation

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Chris McKay• February 23, 2024 • 2 min read

Given all the red-teaming, testing, and responsible AI practices that Google touts with each model release, how did such an obviously flawed feature end up in one of the world's most leading foundation models?

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Chrome Gets Built-In AI Writing Assistance

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Richard Banfield• February 22, 2024 • 1 min read

The feature is called "Help Me Write," and is powered by Gemini. The AI analyzes the content and context of the website you are on to provide tailored recommendations.

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Google One Members Can Now Get Access to Gemini Advanced

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Richard Banfield• February 21, 2024 • 1 min read

This provides Premium subscribers access to AI-powered productivity features like helping draft emails, itineraries, budgets, presentations and more.

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Google Announces Gemini for Workspace

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Richard Banfield• February 21, 2024 • 1 min read

By integrating generative AI directly into familiar Workspace apps, Google is not only hoping to make its AI tools more accessible but also ensure they are practical and relevant to everyday tasks.

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Why Google is Pausing Gemini's Ability to Generate Images

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Chris McKay• February 21, 2024 • 3 min read

Some critics have accused Google's culture of pushing a "pro-diversity bias," while others see this as a good faith but imperfect attempt to showcase variety. In any case, the company says it is prioritizing upgrades to improve accuracy.

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Google Unveils Gemma, A New Family of State-of-the-Art Open Models

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Chris McKay• February 21, 2024 • 2 min read

Gemma achieved state-of-the-art results across several key benchmarks, outscoring popular open models like Llama-2 and Mistral.

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Google Launches AI Cyber Defense Initiative to Help Defenders Gain the Upper Hand

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Chris McKay• February 16, 2024 • 2 min read

Google believes AI can address systemic issues that contribute to the imbalance favoring attackers. It provides reasoning capabilities to tackle complexity, learning to evolve defenses, speed unmatched by humans, and ability to process security data at enormous scale.

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Google Announces Gemini 1.5 With Mixture-of-Experts Architecture and 1 Million Token Context Length

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Chris McKay• February 15, 2024 • 2 min read

This enables much more sophisticated reasoning and problem-solving abilities than previous models.

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Google Launches €25 Million AI Opportunity Initiative for Skills Training Across Europe

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Richard Banfield• February 12, 2024 • 1 min read

By investing in AI literacy, infrastructure, and partnerships across sectors, the company hopes to empower broad segments of the workforce with valuable future-proof skills.

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Google Joins C2PA Steering Committee to Increase Transparency of Online Content

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Richard Banfield• February 8, 2024 • 2 min read

The push for transparency comes as AI-generated media grows more advanced and increasingly difficult to distinguish from authentic content.