Sam Lessin, a general partner at Slow Ventures, revealed on social media that his venture capital firm is successfully using Google’s AI application NotebookLM in place of a traditional customer relationship management (CRM) system. According to an article by VentureBeat’s Carl Franzen, Lessin uploaded 10 years worth of internal emails to NotebookLM and can now …
DeepMind researchers have introduced a new agentic framework called Talker-Reasoner, which is inspired by the “two systems” model of human cognition. The framework divides the AI agent into two distinct modules, VentureBeat reports: the Talker, which handles real-time interactions with the user and the environment, and the Reasoner, which performs complex reasoning and planning. The …
Google Photos will soon show whether images have been edited using artificial intelligence. As Chris Welch reports in his article for The Verge, the AI information will be visible in the “AI info” section of the image details starting next week. The label will apply to edits made with tools like Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, …
Google has made its technology for watermarking AI-generated text publicly available. Developers and businesses can now freely download the tool called SynthID Text from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s Responsible GenAI Toolkit. As Kyle Wiggers reports on TechCrunch, the technology works by subtly modifying the probability of certain word sequences during text generation. …
Google has updated its AI note-taking and research assistant, NotebookLM, enhancing its audio summarization feature to allow users to guide AI-generated audio conversations on specific topics. This update lets users customize audio overviews using a dedicated control, enabling them to focus on particular content areas. Raiza Martin, NotebookLM’s product leader, emphasized that this customization helps …
Google will back the construction of seven small nuclear reactors in the U.S. to power its growing AI operations, according to Jennifer Hiller in the Wall Street Journal. The tech giant has agreed to purchase the power generated by the reactors, which will be built by nuclear startup Kairos Power. The deal aims to add …
DeepMind has introduced the Michelangelo benchmark to evaluate the long-context reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat. While LLMs can manage extensive context windows, research indicates they struggle with reasoning over complex data structures. Current benchmarks often focus on retrieval tasks, which do not adequately assess a model’s reasoning abilities. …
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 …