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Google Strikes Back at OpenAI with Major AI Announcements
+ OpenAI co-founder departs
Gina Acosta
May 15, 2024
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Google had a lot to share during this year’s I/O. Join us to explore the most exciting announcements.
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Google I/O 2024 – the 7 biggest AI announcements 💥
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Google I/O 2024 – the 7 biggest AI announcements 💥
Google's annual I/O developer conference just wrapped up, and as expected, AI stole the show. Let’s go over 7 of the most exciting AI-related announcements Google made at the event.
Gemini 1.5 Pro's capabilities were enhanced for translation, reasoning, and coding, with its context window doubled to 2 million tokens
Google also introduced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a new multimodal AI model optimized for fast, narrow tasks with low latency.
Gemma 2 is getting a new 27-billion-parameter version optimized for GPU and TPU acceleration. This next generation of Google’s Gemma models will launch in June.
Gemini 1.5 Pro is being integrated into Google Workspace's core apps like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail as an interactive AI assistant that can fetch information, write emails, and remind users of tasks.
Project Astra is Google's ambitious vision for a multimodal virtual assistant that can watch and understand what it sees through your device’s camera and will do whatever you ask it to, from finding your missing glasses to reviewing code. According to Demis Hassabis, the leader of Google’s AI efforts, 'It’s that helper, that’s just useful. You get used to it being there whenever you need it.'
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Veo allows creators to generate 1080p videos from text, image, and video prompts in various styles
Google says the resulting videos are “more consistent and coherent,” depicting more realistic movement for people, animals, and objects throughout shots. Similar to OpenAI with Sora, Google it’s inviting select filmmakers and creators to experiment with the model.
Gems will allow Gemini Advanced subscribers to create custom chatbots tailored to specific use cases and personas, similar to OpenAI’s GPTs.
Google Search is getting "AI Overviews" powered by a specialized Gemini model to summarize webpages and provide AI-generated content, similar to what you see in AI search tools like Perplexity
"Ask Photos" allows users to search their Google Photos library using natural language queries, with Gemini analyzing the images
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The latest in AI and Tech
Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated the company will address any potential misuse of YouTube content by OpenAI for training its video-generating AI model Sora. His comments followed OpenAI's tech chief expressing uncertainty over whether YouTube videos were utilized in the model's training data.
As Meta eyes the AI wearables market, reports suggest the company is developing AI-assisted earphones with integrated cameras. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has evaluated multiple designs, but remains unsatisfied with the prototypes so far, as Meta strives to bring this innovative product to fruition.
OpenAI is losing two pivotal figures at the forefront of AI safety research. Co-founder Ilya Sutskever and AI safety researcher Jan Leike are departing after nearly a decade. Sutskever expressed confidence in OpenAI's AGI ambitions as he embarks on a new "personally meaningful" venture.
Google is expanding its technology to detect AI-generated content across new mediums. The company's SynthID watermarking tool, which already identifies AI-created images and audio, can now detect artificially generated video and text outputs as well.
Google has addressed concerns about user data privacy now that AI features are coming to Google Workspace. The company has affirmed that it will not utilize customer files stored on its platform to train AI models like the upcoming Gemini version or any other AI system.
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