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Within the mail, Sundar Pichai mentioned the corporate launched its newest AI mannequin Gemini 2.0 late final yr in addition to its quantum computing chip Willow, ending 2024 on a excessive. There was additionally innovation, he mentioned, throughout Search, YouTube and extra.
- “As we begin the yr, I’ve been reviewing demos for the merchandise and options we’re rolling out within the subsequent few months. The progress is superb, and I am assured we’ll preserve the momentum getting in 2025,” Mr Pichai wrote.Â
- In December, Google made a number of key bulletins throughout AI, {hardware} and prolonged actuality. It launched Gemini 2.0, the subsequent era of its AI mannequin, designed for the “agentic period” which brings multimodality and gear use. The mannequin is meant to grasp the world higher, assume forward, and take motion with person supervision.Â
- Google launched Deep Analysis, a brand new characteristic in Gemini Superior that makes use of superior reasoning and long-context capabilities to behave as a analysis assistant. It additionally launched an experimental model of Gemini 2.0 Flash, a mannequin with enhanced efficiency and pace, which is offered to builders by way of the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.
- On the {hardware} entrance, Google introduced the final availability of Trillium, its sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). Trillium is designed for AI workloads, providing vital enhancements in coaching efficiency, inference throughput, and power effectivity in comparison with prior generations. It was used to coach Gemini 2.0 and is now accessible for Google Cloud prospects.Â
- Google additionally unveiled Willow, a brand new quantum chip, which has demonstrated error correction and efficiency that would result in a helpful, large-scale quantum laptop. Willow has achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum error correction and carried out a computation that may take a supercomputer 10 septillion years in underneath 5 minutesÂ
- Google additionally launched Android XR, a brand new platform developed in partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm, designed to increase actuality for headsets and glasses. Android XR is meant to convey useful experiences to those gadgets with the assistance of AI, and it’ll launch first on headsets – together with one code-named Mission Moohan – after which later help glasses.Â
- Gemini will probably be built-in into Android XR to offer conversational help and assist customers management their gadgets. Apps like YouTube and Google Maps are additionally being reimagined for headsets.
- The corporate additionally launched Google Agentspace, designed to unlock enterprise experience through the use of AI brokers to convey collectively Gemini’s reasoning, Google-quality search, and enterprise information.Â
- Agentspace supplies a single, company-branded multimodal search agent for organizations. It permits staff to perform advanced duties, work together with enterprise information by way of NotebookLM (a note-taking and analysis assistant), uncover info throughout the enterprise, and automate enterprise capabilities with skilled brokers.
- NotebookLM obtained updates, together with a brand new interface, audio interactivity, and the premium model, NotebookLM Plus. Google additionally launched new variations of its video and picture era fashions, Veo 2 and Imagen 3, together with a brand new device known as Whisk, which permits customers to generate photos utilizing different photos relatively than textual content.
