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Gemini 2.0 Family Expands with Cost-Efficient Flash-Lite and Pro-Experimental Models
Announced last December, the Gemini 2.0 family of models now has a new member, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, which Google says is cost-optimized for large scale text output use cases and is now available in preview. Along with Flash-Lite, Google also announced Gemini 2.0 Pro.
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Google's Vertex AI in Firebase SDK Now Ready for Production Use
Three months after its launch in beta, the Vertex AI in Firebase SDK is now ready for production, says Google engineer Thomas Ezan, who further explores three dimensions that are essential for its successful deployment to production: abuse prevention, remote configuration, and responsible AI use.
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Google Releases Experimental AI Reasoning Model
Google has introduced Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, an AI reasoning model available in its AI Studio platform.
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Android Studio Ladybug Update Adds Gemini Support, New Debugging Features, and More
In its recent update to Android Studio Ladybug (2024.2.2), Google has added new Gemini Code Transforms to modify, refactor, or create code, debugging and testing tools, and developer experience improvements. Additionally, the IDE adopts the latest IntelliJ 2024.2 platform release.
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Google Expands Gemini Code Assist with Support for Atlassian, GitHub, and GitLab
Google recently announced support for third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist, including Atlassian Rovo, GitHub, GitLab, Google Docs, Sentry, and Snyk. The private preview enables developers to test the integration of widely-used software tools with the personal AI assistant directly within the IDE.
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Flutter 3.27 Promotes New Rendering Engine Impeller, Improves iOS and Material Widgets, and More
Flutter 3.27, brings a wealth of changes, including better adherence to Apple's UI Guidelines thanks to a number of improved Cupertino widgets, new features for CarouselView, list rows and columns, ModalRoutes transitions, and so on. Furthermore, the new release makes the Impeller rendering engine the default, with improved performance, instrumentation support, concurrency support, and more.
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Google Cloud Launches Sixth Generation Trillium TPUs: More Performance, Scalability and Efficiency
Google Cloud's Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU, is now available. It enhances AI workloads with unmatched performance and 67% better energy efficiency. Integral to the AI Hypercomputer, Trillium boasts training speeds over 4x faster and triples inference throughput. This leap positions Google as a contender against Nvidia in the AI data center market.
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Google Launches Android XR, Its New AI-Powered Extended Reality Platform
Android XR is Google's new operating system aimed at powering devices like headsets and glasses and making possible new experiences, a.k.a. apps, running on them. Android XR will integrate Gemini, Google's AI assistant, to enable understanding user intent, defining a plan, guiding through tasks, and more.
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Exploring Factors that Drive Software Engineering Productivity
Understanding what drives software development productivity is the key to making high-impact investments in engineering productivity, Emerson Murphy-Hill said at QCon San Francisco. He presented the results of their investigation into factors that predict developer productivity and shared what they learned from exploring inequities in software engineering.
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Google Willow Sets New Quantum Supremacy Milestone
Google has announced its new 105-qubit superconducting chip, code-named Willow, which solved a quantum supremacy experiment that would take at least 300 million years to simulate on a classical computer. More importantly, the chip shows how quantum hardware may achieve fault tolerance in such a way to seemingly unleash its scalability.
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Google Introduces Veo and Imagen 3 for Advanced Media Generation on Vertex AI
Google Cloud has introduced Veo and Imagen 3, two new generative AI models available on its Vertex AI platform. Veo generates high-definition videos from text or image prompts, while Imagen 3 creates detailed, lifelike images. Both models include customization and editing tools, designed to support applications, with safety measures such as digital watermarking and data governance built-in.
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Google AI Agent Jules Aims at Helping Developers with Their GitHub-Based Workflows
Part of Gemini 2.0, Google has launched its new AI-based coding assistant in closed preview. Dubbed "Jules", the assistant aims at helping developers to work with Python and JavaScript issues and pull requests, handle bug fixes, and other related tasks.
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Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 2.0: a Leap in AI Performance and Multimodal Integration
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini 2.0, an AI model that outperforms its predecessor, Gemini 1.5 Pro, with double the processing speed. The model supports complex multimodal tasks, combining text, images, and other inputs for advanced reasoning. Built on the JAX/XLA framework, Gemini 2.0 is optimized at scale and includes new features like Deep Research for exploring complex topics.
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Anna Berenberg Talks at QCon San Francisco on Google's One Network
Anna Berenberg, an Engineering Fellow at Google Cloud, unveiled One Network, a cloud-agnostic architecture that simplifies complex interconnected systems. Unifying disparate environments and leveraging open-source technologies enhances operational efficiency and consistency in security policies, empowering developers to focus on service endpoints while ensuring seamless platform integration.
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Meta Releases NotebookLlama: Open-Source PDF to Podcast Toolkit
Meta has released NotebookLlama, an open-source toolkit designed to convert PDF documents into podcasts, providing developers with a structured, accessible PDF-to-audio workflow. As an open-source alternative to Google’s NotebookLM, NotebookLlama guides users through a four-step process that converts PDF text into audio content.