Whisk
https://labs.google/fx/tools/whisk

YouTube says that soon, its tech will be able to find AI copies of celebs and creators – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/17/24323558/youtube-detect-remove-creators-ai-likeness

Partnering with Creative Artists Agency on responsible AI tools for talent – YouTube Blog
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/creative-artists-agency-responsible-ai-tools-for-talent/

YouTube’s new auto-dubbing feature is now available for knowledge-focused content | TechCrunch

YouTube’s new auto-dubbing feature is now available for knowledge-focused content

YouTube is letting creators opt in to allowing third-party AI training – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/16/24322732/youtube-creators-opt-in-third-party-ai-training-videos

“Sundar basically confirmed that Gemini Exp 1206 is Gemini 2.0 Pro. It might be over for big models” / X
https://x.com/scaling01/status/1869072489881747818

FACTS_grounding_paper.pdf

Click to access FACTS_grounding_paper.pdf

“We released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking today! ⚡️🤔 It’s a small step towards improved reasoning via inference-time compute, built on top of our small and mighty 2.0 Flash!” / X
https://x.com/drjwrae/status/1869806618025832788

“Gemini 2.0 and the evolution of agentic AI with Oriol Vinyals
https://x.com/mathemagie/status/1869499728083456083

“Today, we’re announcing Veo 2: our state-of-the-art video generation model which produces realistic, high-quality clips from text or image prompts. 🎥 We’re also releasing an improved version of our text-to-image model, Imagen 3 – available to use in ImageFX through
https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1868703624714395907

“Breaking news from Chatbot Arena⚡🤔 @GoogleDeepMind’s Gemini-2.0-Flash-Thinking debuts as #1 across ALL categories! The leap from Gemini-2.0-Flash: – Overall: #3 → #1 – Overall (Style Control): #4 → #1 – Math: #2 → #1 – Creative Writing: #2 → #1 – Hard Prompts: #1 → #1
https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1869793847548817563

Updates to Veo, Imagen and VideoFX, plus introducing Whisk in Google Labs
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/video-image-generation-update-december-2024/

“Gemini Advanced users – we’ve heard your feedback and are giving you access to our SOTA models much faster now!” / X
https://x.com/asadovsky/status/1869114982971093316

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Third Party AI Trainability on YouTube – YouTube Community

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/313644973/third-party-ai-trainability-on-youtube?hl=en&sjid=3126083270104928144-NC
NotebookLM announces NotebookLM Plus and other new features

https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-new-features-december-2024/
Google kicks off $20B renewable energy building spree to power AI | TechCrunch

Google kicks off $20B renewable energy building spree to power AI


The Second Gemini – by Zvi Mowshowitz

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-second-gemini
“Google DeepMind launched Deep Research for paying Gemini Advanced users It creates multi-step research plans, analyzes info from across the web, and generates comprehensive reports with links to sources

https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1868341197426643256
“Google Veo 2 vs. OpenAI Sora Tried MKBHD’s prompt: “A side scrolling shot of a rhinoceros walking through a dry field of low grass plants” Took the 1st video I got out of Veo, and it’s not even close. Prompt adherence & physics modeling? Leagues apart. Sora nails the look, but

https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1869110702759424120
“Google just released Veo 2, a new state-of-the-art AI video model. In testing, Veo beat OpenAI Sora in BOTH quality and prompt adherence. The video compilation below is 100% created by AI (more details in thread):

https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1868703589520359905
Google debuts new AI video generator Veo 2 claiming better audience scores than Sora | VentureBeat

Google debuts new AI video generator Veo 2 claiming better audience scores than Sora


“BREAKING: Google just dropped Veo 2 and Imagen 3 — their next gen video and image generation models. Turns out Google’s been closing the gap quietly — not just on LLMs, but on visual creation too. Here’s everything you need to know w/o the hype 🧵

https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1868702809568559390
Veo 2 – Google DeepMind

https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/veo-2/
“What is the best LLM for RAG and grounded long-form inputs? @GoogleDeepMind DeepMind FACTS is a new benchmark for how well LLMs can generate factually accurate, long-form responses while remaining faithful to provided source documents. 👀 TL;DR; 📊 1,719 examples (860 public,

https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1869052954579189976
Gemini Code Assist adds tools to aid developer workflows | Google Cloud Blog

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/gemini-code-assist-launches-developer-early-access-for-tools
“We launched a new, interactive video analyzer in @googleaistudio that you can use to test Gemini 2.0 for video understanding! 🎉 It parses the model’s timecode results to make it way easier to explore results. Try it here:

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