Google is throwing generative AI at everything
Google is stuffing powerful new AI tools into tons of its existing products and launching a slew of new ones, including a coding assistant, it announced at its annual I/O...
Who is Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk’s Twitter CEO pick?
Linda Yaccarino has been friendlier with Elon Musk than most ad executives — and as Twitter’s new CEO it’s her job to convince colleagues across the industry to do business...
Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It
If a song is created by artificial intelligence and listened to by a bot, was it even heard at all? It’s a problem music-streaming companies now face as generative AI is...
Success at the intersection of technology and finance
Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin had some free advice for an at-capacity crowd of MIT students at the Wong Auditorium during a campus visit in April. “If you find...
The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last?
Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at Google, said out loud what many in Silicon Valley must have been whispering...
MaMMUT: A simple vision-encoder text-decoder architecture for multimodal tasks
Posted by AJ Piergiovanni and Anelia Angelova, Research Scientists, Google Research Vision-language foundational models are built on the premise of a single pre-training followed by subsequent adaptation to multiple downstream...
Building better pangenomes to improve the equity of genomics
Posted by Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, and Kishwar Shafin, Research Scientist, Genomics For decades, researchers worked together to assemble a complete copy of the molecular instructions for a human —...
Enabling conversational interaction on mobile with LLMs
Posted by Bryan Wang, Student Researcher, and Yang Li, Research Scientist, Google Research Intelligent assistants on mobile devices have significantly advanced language-based interactions for performing simple daily tasks, such as...
F-VLM: Open-vocabulary object detection upon frozen vision and language models
Posted by Weicheng Kuo and Anelia Angelova, Research Scientists, Google Research Detection is a fundamental vision task that aims to localize and recognize objects in an image. However, the data...
