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Google AI News: Week Ending 03/01/2024

March 4, 2024

Gemini

“In all the discussions over Gemini Pro 1.5’s giant context window & multimodal video (still the big signal in the noise of this week), there hasn’t been as much about the model itself, which seems to beat Ultra 1.0 in tests and be similarly near GPT-4 level. Getting interesting. https://t.co/A8pKij8dlI” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1761247443172176173

Google aims to relaunch Gemini AI image tool in a few weeks – https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-hopes-relaunch-gemini-ai-150314497.html

Genie

“Genie’s model is general and not constrained to 2D. We also train a Genie on robotics data (RT-1) without actions, and demonstrate that we can learn an action controllable simulator there too. We think this is a promising step towards general world models for AGI. https://t.co/yYLBzefBkz” / X – https://twitter.com/_rockt/status/1762027814369267901

Genie: Generative Interactive Environments – https://sites.google.com/view/genie-2024/home

“Google presents Genie Generative Interactive Environments introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual… https://t.co/ZO1focG7Vx” / X – https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1761961459515322527

“AI powered Image-to-video games is here 🤯 Imagine transforming any image – a sketch, a photograph, or even a text-generated scene into a fully interactive, playable world. That’s exactly what Genie, does. Genie by Google DeepMind is a foundation AI world model that can… https://t.co/knmYJj5Unx” / X – https://twitter.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1762162667081306363

Paid Publishing

Google Is Paying Publishers Five-Figure Sums to Test an Unreleased Gen AI Platform –

In exchange for a five-figure sum, publishers must use the tool to publish 3 stories per day

https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unreleased-gen-ai

DeepMind

Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/google-deepmind-forms-a-new-org-focused-on-ai-safety/

Expect AI-made prescription drugs to be ready for clinical trials in a couple of years, predicts Google DeepMind CEO – https://www.yahoo.com/news/expect-ai-made-prescription-drugs-211142860.html

Other Google News

Google expects more advanced AI models to arrive on phones in 2025 – https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/26/google-expects-more-advanced-ai-models-to-arrive-on-phones-in-2025.html
California gives Waymo the green light to expand robotaxi operations – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/2/24088454/waymo-california-highway-expansion-los-angeles-bay-area

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AI News #22: Week Ending 03/01/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 25 Stories

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