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Google's Image-Text AI LIMoE Outperforms CLIP on ImageNet Benchmark
Researchers at Google Brain recently trained Language-Image Mixture of Experts (LIMoE), a 5.6B parameter image-text AI model. In zero-shot learning experiments on ImageNet, LIMoE outperforms CLIP and performs comparably to state-of-the-art models while using fewer compute resources.
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Android 13 Final Beta Improves Security and Privacy, and More
The latest beta of Android 13 is a final update that allows developers to make sure their apps are ready for the new Android release when it becomes available in a few weeks, says Google.
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Google AI Developed a Language Model to Solve Quantitative Reasoning Problems
Google AI developed a deep learning language model called Minerva which could solve mathematical quantitative problems. Google AI researchers achieved a state-of-the-art deep learning model by training on a large dataset that contains quantitative reasoning with symbolic expressions. The final model, Minerva, could solve quantitative mathematical problems on STEM reasoning tasks.
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MLGO Framework Brings Machine Learning in Compiler Optimizations
Google’s new Machine Learning Guided Optimization (MLGO) is an industrial-grade general framework for integrating machine-learning (ML) techniques systematically in a compiler and in particular in LLVM. Compiling faster and smaller code can significantly reduce the operational cost of large data-center applications.
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Google Cloud Announces Advanced API Security through Apigee
Recently Google announced the public preview of Advanced API Security, a comprehensive set of API security capabilities built on Apigee, their API management platform. With the new capability, customers can detect security threats more efficiently.
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Google Cloud Launches New Sustainability Offerings for Climate Resiliency
At the recent Sustainability Summit, Google launched several new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies and researchers to improve climate resilience. These offerings are Climate Insights for natural resources and Climate Insights for infrastructure.
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Google Expands Its Distributed Cloud Platform with Anthos On-Premises
Recently Google announced the expansion of its Distributed Cloud Platform by bringing in Anthos on-premise (for VMware vSphere and Anthos bare metal services). The offering is called Google Distributed Cloud Virtual — a software-and services-only solution.
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Google's New Imagen AI Outperforms DALL-E on Text-to-Image Generation Benchmarks
Researchers from Google's Brain Team have announced Imagen, a text-to-image AI model that can generate photorealistic images of a scene given a textual description. Imagen outperforms DALL-E 2 on the COCO benchmark, and unlike many similar models, is pre-trained only on text data.
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Google Brings Confidential Computing to Latest C2D and N2D Machine Types
A few months after upgrading its general-purpose (N2D) and compute-optimized (C2D) virtual machines to adopt the latest AMD EPYC technology, Google is now making confidential computing available in preview on those machine types.
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Google Introduces New AI Features in Workspace
Google’s latest AI developments are aimed at assisting employees in focusing on what matters, collaborating securely, and strengthening human relationships across all work modes and locations.
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New GraphWorld Tool Accelerates Graph Neural-Network Benchmarking
Google AI has recently released GraphWorld, a tool to accelerate performance benchmarking in the area of graph neural networks (GNNs). GraphWorld is a configurable framework to generate graphs with a variety of structural properties like different node degree distributions and Gini index.
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Google Jetpack Brings Updated Architectural and UI Components and Improved Performance Tools
At its latest Google I/O conference, Google announced a new Jetpack release, including updated architectural libraries, extended support for app performance optimization, Jetpack Compose 1.2, and more.
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Flutter 3 Now Stable on All Supported Platforms, Extends Material Design 3
At its recent Google I/O conference, Google announced Flutter 3, which stabilizes support for macOS and Linux, thus completing Flutter's cross-platform roadmap. Flutter 3 also brings support for Apple Silicon and a new Casual Game Toolkit.
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Android Studio Chipmunk Brings Animation Preview, CPU Profiler, and More
The latest release of Google's IDE for Android app development, Android Studio Chipmunk, includes a new Compose animation previewer, a CPU profiler, and an extended build analyzer to improve performance.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud TPU VMs
Last year Google introduced Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines in preview. Today, Cloud TPU VMs are generally available, including the new TPU Embedding API, which can accelerate ML Based ranking and recommendation workloads.