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Google AI News: Week Ending 03/22/2024

March 22, 2024

Gemini

“Gemini 1.5 Pro is a very good model, by the way. Appears to beat Gemini 1.0 Ultra which was itself GPT-4 class on the stats. Also impressive that Google can more widely release massive context windows. Google seems to be moving quickly.” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1770902518765174948

“If you want a hint about the future of AI, it is worth trying Gemini 1.5 with the 1M token context window, now available to everyone, apparently. Some of my experiments: giving it a video and having it figure out a recipe, execute instructions, watching my screen, summarize work https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1770896488484282560

“Siri getting a boost through Apple licensing Gemini would be the plot twist we never expected, but certainly need. After all, Google still pays Apple gobs of money to remain the default search engine, and Apple doesn’t seem to be as far along with their GenAI efforts.” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1769603052296892813

Apple in Talks to License Google Gemini for iPhone, iOS 18 Generative AI Tools – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/apple-in-talks-to-license-google-gemini-for-iphone-ios-18-generative-ai-tools?srnd=undefined&sref=9hGJlFio&embedded-checkout=true

Apple in Talks to License Google Gemini for iPhone, iOS 18 Generative AI Tools – Bloomberg – https://archive.md/u3Zlf

Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104626/apple-license-google-gemini-generative-ai-openai-chatgpt

Google’s Ban on Election Queries in Gemini AI Sparks Debate | Cryptopolitan – https://www.cryptopolitan.com/googles-ban-election-queries-in-gemini-ai/

Google won’t let you use its Gemini AI to answer questions about an upcoming election in your country | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/12/google-gemini-election-related-queries/

“We’re starting to roll out API support for Gemini 1.5 Pro for developers. We’re excited to see what you build with the 1M token context window! We’ll be onboarding people to the API slowly at first, and then we’ll ramp it up. In the meantime, developers can try out Gemini 1.5…” / X – https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1770653917543870571?s=20

DeepMind

“Google DeepMind introduced TacticAI, an AI system that can advise coaches on football tactics. It uses predictive and generative models to analyze previous play data and was created in collaboration with Liverpool FC. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1770294542228496616

“We’re announcing TacticAI: an AI assistant capable of offering insights to football experts on corner kicks. ⚽ Developed with @LFC, it can help teams sample alternative player setups to evaluate possible outcomes, and achieves state-of-the-art results. 🧵… https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1770121564085707082

“Google DeepMind researchers just developed VLOGGER. It’s a new AI model that can generate talking avatar videos with full upper body motion from just a still image and audio clip. Lots of use cases here from realism for AI assistants, real-time video dubbing, and more. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1769509639513584122

Other Google News

“Google presents RadSplat Radiance Field-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Robust Real-Time Rendering with 900+ FPS Recent advances in view synthesis and real-time rendering have achieved photorealistic quality at impressive rendering speeds. While Radiance Field-based https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1770669543565734194

Fitbit is about to get some major AI upgrades, powered by Google’s ‘Personal Health’ LLM | ZDNET – https://www.zdnet.com/article/fitbit-is-about-to-get-some-major-ai-upgrades-powered-by-googles-personal-health-llm/

Cappy: Outperforming and boosting large multi-task language models with a small scorer – Google Research Blog – https://blog.research.google/2024/03/cappy-outperforming-and-boosting-large.html

Google Fined $270 Million, in Part Over How It Trained Its AI – https://www.businessinsider.com/google-fined-270-million-trained-ai-news-outlets-france-2024-3

ScreenAI: A visual language model for UI and visually-situated language understanding – Google Research Blog – https://blog.research.google/2024/03/screenai-visual-language-model-for-ui.html

Claude 3 models on Vertex AI \ Anthropic – https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-vertex-general-availability

YouTube now requires creators to disclose when realistic content was made with AI | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/18/youtube-requires-creatorsdisclose-realistic-content-made-ai/

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