Google IO 2024

Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024

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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 can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and time lapses, and make edits and adjustments to already generated footage. […]

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Google is bringing Gemini capabilities to Google Maps Platform

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Gemini model capabilities are coming to the Google Maps Platform for developers, starting with the Places API, the company announced at the Google I/O 2024 conference on Tuesday. With this new capability, developers will be able to show generative AI summaries of places and areas in their own apps and websites.  The summaries are created

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Project IDX, Google’s next-gen IDE, is now in open beta

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At it’s annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that Project IDX, the company’s next-gen, AI-centric browser-based development environment, is now in open beta. The company first launched it as an invite-only service gated by a waitlist in August. Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service. “As AI becomes

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Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June

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On Tuesday, Google announced a number of new additions to Gemma, its family of open (but not open source) models comparable to Meta’s Llama and Mistral’s open models, at its annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference. The headline-grabbing release here is Gemma 2, the next generation of Google’s open-weights Gemma models, which will launch with

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Google TalkBack will use Gemini to describe images for blind people

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The company announced that Gemini Nano capabilities are coming to the company’s accessibility feature, TalkBack. This is a great example of a company using generative AI to open its software to more users. Gemini Nano is the smallest version of Google’s large-language-model-based platform, designed to be run entirely on-device. That means it doesn’t require a

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Google will soon start using GenAI to organize some search results pages

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At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it plans to use generative AI to organize the entire search results page for some search results. That’s in addition to the existing AI Overview feature, which creates a short snippet with aggregate information about a topic you were searching for. The AI

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Google’s Gemini updates: How Project Astra is powering some of I/O’s big reveals

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Google is improving its AI-powered chatbot Gemini so that it can better understand the world around it — and the people conversing with it. At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, the company previewed a new experience in Gemini called Gemini Live, which lets users have “in-depth” voice chats with Gemini on their smartphones.

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