Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube
The official launch comes almost a year after YouTube began experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app.
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Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say
Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company. Earlier this week, TechCrunch r...
Google mentioned ‘AI’ 120+ times during its I/O keynote
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during its I/O 2024 by its own count. CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating ...
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Google gets serious about AI-generated video at Google I/O 2024
Google’s gunning for OpenAI’s Sora with Veo, an AI model that can create 1080p video clips around a minute long given a text prompt. Unveiled on Tuesday at Google’s I/O 2024 developer conference, Veo...
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Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more
Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.
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Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools
Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools.
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Google experiments with using video to search, thanks to Gemini AI
People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need.
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Circle to Search is now a better homework helper
Google's Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems.
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Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features.
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Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.
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Google TalkBack will use Gemini to describe images for blind people
This is a great example of a company using generative AI to open its software to more users.
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Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June
The standard Gemma models were only available in 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions, making this quite a step up.
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Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls
The system effectively listens for “conversation patterns commonly associated with scams” in-real time.
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Project IDX, Google’s next-gen IDE, is now in open beta
Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service.
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Google is bringing Gemini capabilities to the Google Maps platform
The summaries are created based on Gemini's analysis of insights from Google Maps’ community of more than 300 million contributors.
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Gemini comes to Gmail to summarize, draft emails, and more
In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyze attachments, like PDFs.
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Google’s generative AI can now analyze hours of video
At Google I/O, Google announced upgrades to Gemini 1.5 Pro, including a bigger context window. .
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Google’s image-generating AI gets an upgrade
Veo can generate few-seconds-long 1080p video clips given a text prompt.
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Google reveals plans for upgrading AI in the real world through Gemini Live at Google I/O 2024
Google is upgrading Gemini, its AI-powered chatbot, with features aimed at making the experience more ambient and contextually useful.
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Google’s next-gen TPUs promise a 4.7x performance boost
At its Google I/O developer conference, Google on Tuesday announced the next generation of its Tensor Processing Units (TPU) AI chips.
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