Have a look at these new announcements, which were promised at this year Google I/O keynote. TechCrunch website has detailed the announcements with precision.
Google Maps unveiled a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities. Google’s Magic Editor Feature is AI-powered for more complex edits in specific parts of the photos. There is also a new feature called Magic Compose, demoed today, that shows it being used with messages and conversations to rewrite texts in different styles.
Google’s newest large language model (LLM) is Palm 2. According to Tech Crunch website, PaLM 2 will power Google’s updated Bard chat tool, the company’s competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Google is not only removing its waitlist for Bard and making its available, in English, in over 180 countries and territories, but it’s also launching support for Japanese and Korean. In addition, Google is partnering with Adobe for some art generation capabilities via Bard.
Google’s Workspace suite is also getting the AI touch to make it smarter, with the addition of an automatic table (but not formula) generation in Sheets and image creation in Slides and Meet.
MusicLM is Google’s new experimental AI tool that turns text into music.
Google Search has two new features surrounding better understanding of content and the context of an image the user is viewing in the search results. The new feature includes more information with an “About this Image” feature and new markup in the file itself that will allow images to be labelled as “AI-generated.”
There’s a new A3 supercomputer virtual machine in town. According to TechCrunch, “this A3 has been purpose-built to handle the considerable demands of these resource-hungry use cases,” noting that A3 is “armed with NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs and combining that with a specialized data center to derive immense computational power with high throughput and low latency, all at what they suggest is a more reasonable price point than you would typically pay for such a package.”
This phone is said to have “the real secret sauce in the Pixel Fold experience is, unsurprisingly, the software…The app continuity when switching between the external and internal screens is quite seamless, allowing you to pick up where you left off as you change screen sizes.