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Gemini

Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash GA, 1.5 Flash tuning support, higher rate limits, and more API updates – Google Developers Blog

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-15-pro-and-15-flash-now-available

Other Google News

AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead

https://research.google/blog/ai-in-software-engineering-at-google-progress-and-the-path-ahead

“With @Harvard, we built a ‘virtual rodent’ powered by AI to help us better understand how the brain controls movement. 🧠 With deep RL, it learned to operate a biomechanically accurate rat model – allowing us to compare real & virtual neural activity. → 

With @Harvard, we built a ‘virtual rodent’ powered by AI to help us better understand how the brain controls movement. 🧠

With deep RL, it learned to operate a biomechanically accurate rat model – allowing us to compare real & virtual neural activity. → https://t.co/GaToq3AWTQ pic.twitter.com/HnWZLk2mcE

— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) June 13, 2024

Advancing personal health and wellness insights with AI

https://research.google/blog/advancing-personal-health-and-wellness-insights-with-ai

June Pixel feature drop: Upgraded tools and new safety features

https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-feature-drop-june-2024

“Google presents Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning Presents a novel benchmark designed to assess LLMs’ temporal reasoning abilities, which SotA LLMs currently struggle with data: 

Google presents Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning

Presents a novel benchmark designed to assess LLMs’ temporal reasoning abilities, which SotA LLMs currently struggle with

data: https://t.co/bFLa119629
abs: https://t.co/h7KVVpF3aw pic.twitter.com/yKeEnH3OtK

— Aran Komatsuzaki (@arankomatsuzaki) June 14, 2024

Smart Paste for context-aware adjustments to pasted code

https://research.google/blog/smart-paste-for-context-aware-adjustments-to-pasted-code

“A paper origami owl, a felt robot, a skater made of clay… here’s how Imagen 3 can generate visually rich images with complex textures. 👀 

A paper origami owl, a felt robot, a skater made of clay… here’s how Imagen 3 can generate visually rich images with complex textures. 👀 pic.twitter.com/j4wiqjjBj9

— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) June 11, 2024

“Researchers from Microsoft, Google, MIT, and Oxford released new research presenting DenseAV. It’s an AI algorithm that learns the meaning of words and sounds by watching videos, and can help better understand animal communication and discover language. 

Researchers from Microsoft, Google, MIT, and Oxford released new research presenting DenseAV.

It's an AI algorithm that learns the meaning of words and sounds by watching videos, and can help better understand animal communication and discover language. pic.twitter.com/6iYCY9yFlJ

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) June 14, 2024

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AI News #37: Week Ending 06/14/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 7 Must-Read Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
• Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
• Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
• Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
• Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
• Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
• Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett

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