Google has released a new version of its AI model Gemini. Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is now available for production use, as announced on the Google Developers Blog. Compared to its predecessor, the model offers 50% lower prices, twice the request limits, and lower latency for short inputs. Developers can access Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B for free …
Google is expanding its AI voice assistant Gemini Live to include more languages. In addition to English, it will now support French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish. Allison Johnson from The Verge reports that these new languages will be available to all users in the coming weeks. Google plans to integrate over 40 languages in …
DeepMind has developed a new technique called SCoRe that significantly improves the self-correction abilities of large language models (LLMs). Ben Dickson reports this in an article for VentureBeat. SCoRe uses self-generated data and enables LLMs to use their internal knowledge to identify and correct errors. In tests, SCoRe significantly outperformed other self-correction methods. The technique …
Google is developing AI with reasoning abilities inspired by the human brain, similar to OpenAI’s o1 model. Several teams at the company are making progress on AI systems capable of solving complex problems in fields such as mathematics and programming. This was reported by Julia Love and Rachel Metz for Bloomberg. Researchers are using a …
With NotebookLM, Google has developed a versatile AI note-taking and research tool that is increasingly suitable for professional use. It allows users to organize different types of documents, such as PDFs, websites, Google Docs and, more recently, YouTube videos and audio files, in a digital notebook. A core feature of this tool is AI-powered analysis …
Google is expanding the capabilities of its AI-powered note-taking tool NotebookLM. Users can now create summaries of YouTube videos and audio files, and share AI-generated audio discussions. This was reported by Jagmeet Singh for TechCrunch. The application, which was originally designed for educational purposes, is increasingly being used in a professional environment. According to Raiza …
Google is showing AI-generated images when searching for certain types of mushrooms, which could be dangerous for mushroom pickers. The moderator of the Reddit forum r/mycology discovered that the first image shown when searching for a specific mushroom was an AI-generated image that did not resemble the real mushroom. As Emanuel Maiberg reports for 404 …
Google has spent around $2.7 billion to bring AI expert Noam Shazeer back to the company. Shazeer, co-author of a groundbreaking AI research paper, left Google in 2021 to start his own company, Character.AI. When that ran into trouble, Google offered the large sum – officially for a technology license. In reality, however, the main …
Researchers are working on new AI systems that can check their own mathematical answers. This is reported by Cade Metz in the New York Times. The technology is meant to prevent chatbots like ChatGPT from providing incorrect information. Instead, the new systems can generate mathematical evidence to verify their answers. Silicon Valley startup Harmonic, for …
Google today announced major updates to its Gemini AI platform. The Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002 models have been improved and now offer higher quality for mathematical tasks, long contexts, and visual applications. At the same time, Google is reducing the price of Gemini 1.5 Pro by more than 50% while significantly increasing the limits. A major …