Google’s gunning for OpenAI’s Sora with Veo, an AI model that can create 1080p video clips around a minute long given a text prompt. Unveiled on Tuesday at Google’s I/O 2024 developer conference, Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and timelapses, and make edits …...Read More
Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024
Gemini comes to Gmail to summarize, draft emails, and more
Gmail is getting an AI-powered upgrade. At its Google I/O 2024 conference on Tuesday, Google announced that Gmail users will be able to search, summarize, and draft their emails using its Gemini AI technology. It will also be able to take action on emails for more complex tasks, like helping …...Read More
Google is bringing Gemini capabilities to Google Maps Platform
Gemini model capabilities are coming to the Google Maps Platform for developers, starting with the Places API, the company announced at the Google I/O 2024 conference on Tuesday. With this new capability, developers will be able to show generative AI summaries of places and areas in their own apps and …...Read More
Project IDX, Google's next-gen IDE, is now in open beta
At it’s annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that Project IDX, the company’s next-gen, AI-centric browser-based development environment, is now in open beta. The company first launched it as an invite-only service gated by a waitlist in August. Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried …...Read More
Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls
For a few years now, carriers have been utilizing lists to alert users of potential spam and scam calls as they come in. These systems are hardly foolproof, of course. So what happens once a user picks up? At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google previewed a …...Read More
Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June
On Tuesday, Google announced a number of new additions to Gemma, its family of open (but not open source) models at its annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference. The headline-grabbing release here is Gemma 2, the next generation of Google’s Gemma models, which will launch with a 27 billion parameter …...Read More
Google TalkBack will use Gemini to describe images for blind people
At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, the company announced that it will be using Gemini Nano to help describe images in an Android feature coming later this year. The company announced that Gemini Nano capabilities are coming to the company’s accessibility feature, TalkBack. This is a great …...Read More
Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
At the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced an addition to its Firebase platform that aims to make it easier for developers to build AI-powered applications in JavaScript/TypeScript, with Go support coming soon. Firebase Genkit is an open source framework, using the Apache 2.0 license, that enables developers …...Read More
Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it is building Gemini Nano, the smallest of its AI models, directly into the Chrome desktop client, starting with Chrome 126. This, the company says, will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI …...Read More
Circle to Search is now a better homework helper
It’s a teacher’s worst nightmare: The AI is doing the kids’ homework. At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, the company announced that its AI-powered Circle to Search feature, which allows Android users to get instant answers using gestures like circling, will now be able to solve more …...Read More
