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Google AI Literacy

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.

Google AI Safety AI Tech

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.

Google Gemini

Google Rebrands Bard as Gemini, Launches Paid Plan and Mobile App

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Chris McKay• February 8, 2024 • 2 min read

Gemini Advanced and the mobile apps are launching first in the US in English and will continue expanding globally and adding language support over time.

Google

Google Maps Unveils Generative AI Feature To Make Location Discovery Easier

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Richard Banfield• February 2, 2024 • 1 min read

With conversational interactions powered by AI, Maps can better help users find hidden neighborhood gems, cool date spots, or family-friendly activities that precisely match their needs.

Google Gemini

Google Is Rebranding Bard as Gemini

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Chris McKay• February 1, 2024 • 1 min read

This consolidation of branding signifies Google's intent to unify its AI offerings under the Gemini moniker, streamlining its AI identity across products and services.

Google Bard

Upgraded Google Bard with Gemini Pro Model Now Available in 40 Languages and 230 Countries

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Chris McKay• February 1, 2024 • 2 min read

This update not only broadens Bard's linguistic and geographical reach but also introduces advanced functionalities like image generation, making Bard a more versatile and creative AI collaborator.

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Google Rolls Out Imagen 2 for AI Image Generation Across Bard and Other Products

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Chris McKay• February 1, 2024 • 1 min read

Seamless integration into consumer-facing services like Bard and ImageFX in particular helps increase mainstream accessible and experimentation.

Google Hugging Face

Google Secures Important Strategic Partnership with Hugging Face

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Richard Banfield• January 25, 2024 • 1 min read

The partnership provides Hugging Face developers streamlined access to Google's optimized AI infrastructure for model building.

Google Research

Lumiere is an Impressive New Text-to-Video AI from Google

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Chris McKay• January 24, 2024 • 2 min read

This model is designed to create realistic, diverse, and coherent motion in videos, a task that has historically been challenging in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision.

Google AI Tech

Chrome Browser Gets Smarter with AI Upgrades

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Chris McKay• January 23, 2024 • 2 min read

The latest AI features coming to Chrome can generate custom browser themes, suggest tab groups and help you write with more confidence.

Google Research

Making AI More Self-Aware: Google Introduces ASPIRE Framework to Boost Confidence in LLM Responses

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Chris McKay• January 19, 2024 • 2 min read

ASPIRE enables models to output an uncertainty warning like "I don't know!" along with the prediction if the confidence score is low.

Samsung Google

How Samsung Uses Google Gemini to Power AI Features in New Galaxy S24 Phones

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Chris McKay• January 17, 2024 • 2 min read

The new Galaxy S24 series is the first major rollout of integrated generative AI in the smartphone experience.

Google Research

Google DeepMind's AI Masters Geometry at the Highest Levels

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Chris McKay• January 17, 2024 • 3 min read

The AI exhibited expertise on par with International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) gold medalists on a benchmark test of 30 challenging classic geometry problems.

Google Research Healthcare

Google Shares Research Progress on AI that Converses, Reasons and Diagnoses Like Your Doctor

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Richard Banfield• January 12, 2024 • 2 min read

AMIE demonstrated stronger diagnostic accuracy and outperformed doctors on most metrics of consultation quality in both diagnostic accuracy and clinical communication.

Google Startups

Google Launches New Accelerator for Women-Led AI Startups in Europe and Israel

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Chris McKay• January 12, 2024 • 1 min read

Applications for the Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders are open until January 19th, 2024, inviting women founders actively building with AI in Europe and Israel to apply.

Google Biotech & Health

Isomorphic Labs Partners with Eli Lilly and Novartis to Propel AI-Driven Drug Discovery

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Chris McKay• January 7, 2024 • 2 min read

With a combined value of about $3B, the high-profile deals underscore the immense faith that industry leaders have in AI-driven drug discovery as the future of medicine R&D.

Google Robotics Research

Google DeepMind Unveils Latest Research in Advanced Robotics with AutoRT, SARA-RT, and RT-Trajectory

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Chris McKay• January 4, 2024 • 2 min read

These advancements build on the foundational Robotics Transformers work, aiming to streamline decision-making processes, enhance environmental understanding, and improve navigational capabilities of robots.

Google Research

Google AI Unveils VideoPoet: A Zero-Shot Video Generation Large Language Model

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Richard Banfield• December 19, 2023 • 3 min read

VideoPoet's capability to generate videos with diverse motions and styles, tailored to specific text inputs, showcases its advanced understanding of both content and context.

Google

Google Cloud Rolls Out Duet AI Tools for Developers and Security Teams

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Richard Banfield• December 13, 2023 • 2 min read

Duet AI for Developers gives software engineers AI-driven coding, chat, and project assistance. Duet AI in Security Operations brings natural language search, alert summarization, and automated recommendations to Chronicle, Google Cloud’s security information and event management solution.

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Google Unveils Imagen 2, Its Most Advanced Text-to-Image AI Yet

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Chris McKay• December 13, 2023 • 3 min read

Through changes to its training data and methodology, Imagen 2 generates higher resolution, more aesthetically pleasing images that closely match the descriptions provided.

Google Healthcare

Google Introduces MedLM, A New Family of AI Models for the Healthcare Industry

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Richard Banfield• December 13, 2023 • 2 min read

These models, a larger one for complex tasks and a medium model suitable for scaling across tasks, are designed to handle diverse applications from summarizing conversations to navigating medication databases.

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NotebookLM, Google's AI Note-taking Is Now Available to Users in the US

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Chris McKay• December 8, 2023 • 2 min read

The core capability of NotebookLM is its ability to “ground” itself in source materials supplied by the user.

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Google Admits Gemini Hands-On Video Was Misleading

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Chris McKay• December 8, 2023 • 2 min read

Google confessed that the responses in the video were sped up, and contrary to the impression given, the AI did not respond to voice or video in real time.

Google Gemini

Bard Gets Biggest Upgrade Yet with Gemini Pro

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Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 1 min read

Early next year, Bard will receive another significant upgrade with Gemini Ultra, Google's most capable AI model intended for complex, multimodal tasks.

Google AI Tech

Google Unveils New On-Device AI Capabilities for Pixel 8 Pro with Gemini Nano

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Chris McKay• December 6, 2023 • 1 min read

The Pixel 8 Pro, powered by Google Tensor G3, is now the first smartphone equipped with Gemini Nano, offering users a range of innovative features.