Last year, Nano Banana brought Gemini's intelligence to image generation and editing. Since then, it’s helped millions of people restore old photos, design from sketches and visualize ideas in ways that weren’t possible before. From the start we built Gemini to be natively multimodal from the ground up, and now we’re taking the next step.…
Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0. The platform consists of four components: the Genesis World physics engine, Nyx (a real-time path-traced renderer), Quadrants (a Python-to-GPU compiler), and a simulation interface. It is designed to accelerate robotics foundation model development through simulation-based evaluation.
Robotics model development has two bottlenecks: data and iteration speed. The field has…
# Introduction
Whether they are well-established classifiers or state-of-the-art massive models like large language models (LLMs), building machine learning solutions often entails a risk: algorithms might silently adopt prejudices inherent in the historical training dataset they were trained on. But in a high-stakes scenario or one where data is sensitive, how can we…
The Asia-Pacific region is a global engine for economic growth, but it's also highly vulnerable to climate change. While green technologies are gaining momentum, a recent report shows they aren’t scaling fast enough to keep up with the region’s rising environmental risks. To help innovators tackle these environmental challenges, we’re launching an inaugural Google DeepMind…
# Introduction
Production data is typically subject to notable privacy and compliance constraints. For this reason, anonymizing such data becomes critical in virtually every real-world data science project involving the launch of a data-driven product, service, or solution.
Mimesis is an open-source Python library that stands out for its ability to generate realistic…
Street View: ground your worlds in real places When creating imaginative worlds in Project Genie, you can now also base them on real places. Just tap the Maps pin to choose a place in the U.S. and optionally select a style for your world, like “Desert Sands” or “Stone Age.” Then, describe your character —…
# Introduction
TurboQuant is a novel algorithmic suite and library recently launched by Google. Its goal is to apply advanced quantization and compression to large language models (LLMs) and vector search engines — indispensable elements of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems — to improve their efficiency drastically. TurboQuant has been shown to successfully reduce…
Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-VL-450M, an updated version of its earlier LFM2-VL-450M vision-language model. The new release introduces bounding box prediction, improved instruction following, expanded multilingual understanding, and function calling support — all within a 450M-parameter footprint designed to run directly on edge hardware ranging from embedded AI modules like NVIDIA Jetson Orin, to mini-PC…
Embracing the opportunity ahead, responsibly We believe the promise of AI in education can only be achieved by developing it responsibly. One essential facet of this is doing so in close partnership with the entire education ecosystem. When my team and I met with Damian Harvey, Interim Head of C2k, he emphasized this point. He…