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🤖 Google releases its own 'reasoning' AI model
⚡ New physics simulation accelerates robot training by 430,000x
🚗 Waymo cars safer than those driven by humans
🔍 Google Search will reportedly have a dedicated 'AI Mode' soon
💻 Apple partners with Nvidia to speed up AI performance
📺 YouTube to remove videos with clickbait titles
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Google releases its own 'reasoning' AI modelLINK
Google introduced the Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental AI model that tackles complex questions using a reasoning approach, competing directly with OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo.
The model, revealed by Google's AI experts, enhances problem-solving by breaking tasks into smaller components, demonstrated during a physics problem-solving showcase.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is currently available for experimentation on Google's AI Studio, focusing on multimodal understanding, reasoning, and coding, though it remains in its early development stage.
⚡ New physics simulation accelerates robot training by 430,000xLINK
Genesis, a new open-source simulation system, enables robots to practice tasks at speeds 430,000 times faster than real-world conditions, helping them learn efficiently in a virtual environment.
The platform, developed by researchers led by Zhou Xian of Carnegie Mellon University, processes physics calculations significantly faster than other simulators using advanced graphics technology, enhancing neural network training for future robots.
With the ability to generate realistic and dynamic 3D virtual environments using text prompts, Genesis reduces the reliance on costly physical tests and accelerates the development of robotics by simulating diverse scenarios swiftly.
🚗 Waymo cars safer than those driven by humansLINK
Waymo's autonomous vehicles cause significantly less property damage and fewer bodily injuries than human-driven cars, showing an 88% reduction in property damage claims and a 92% reduction in injury claims.
The study relies on data from 25.3 million miles driven by Waymo's vehicles in several cities, compared to human driving baselines derived from Swiss Re’s data covering over 200 billion miles.
Though there's debate about autonomous vehicle safety due to limited data, Waymo continues to advocate for their benefits, pointing to reduced crash risks compared to human drivers.
🔍 Google Search will reportedly have a dedicated 'AI Mode' soonLINK
Google is reportedly introducing a new "AI Mode" to its search engine, which will allow users to switch from the top of the results page to a chatbot-like interface.
This AI Mode will be positioned alongside existing tabs and provide related links, along with a search bar for follow-up questions, enhancing interaction through voice queries.
Google’s move comes amid growing competition from OpenAI’s integration of search in ChatGPT, pressuring Google to further blend search with artificial intelligence.
💻 Apple partners with Nvidia to speed up AI performanceLINK
Apple and NVIDIA have collaborated to enhance large language models (LLMs) using a new text generation technique to boost AI application performance significantly.
The technology, called Recurrent Drafter (ReDrafter), integrates beam search with dynamic tree attention methods and is now part of NVIDIA's TensorRT-LLM framework for optimized GPU performance.
This innovation results in a 2.7x speed increase in token production, reducing latency, GPU usage, and power consumption in LLMs with billions of parameters.
📺 YouTube to remove videos with clickbait titlesLINK
YouTube will start removing videos in India that use misleading titles and thumbnails, commonly known as clickbait, to improve content authenticity and user experience.
The crackdown will initially focus on videos related to breaking news or current events, and no penalties will be imposed on creators at first to help them adapt.
By rolling out these anti-clickbait measures, YouTube aims to eliminate frustrating and deceptive content and has previously offered training to help creators comply with its policies.
Other news you might like
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Google Street View helped police solve a missing persons case.LINK
US asks NVIDIA to investigate how its AI GPUs ended up in China despite Chip ban.LINK
British computer scientist convicted for repeatedly claiming he invented Bitcoin.LINK
North Korean hackers account for over 60% of all global cryptocurrency stolen in 2024.LINK
Latest research and tools
Xbox 360 Security Defeat: it describes how hackers bypassed Xbox 360's security in 2011 using hardware glitching to run unsigned code, despite Microsoft's measures to ensure only their signed code could execute.LINK
ByteDance's Recommendation System Monolith: a deep learning framework designed for large scale recommendation modeling, offering real-time training to quickly capture emerging trends and enhance user experience by rapidly uncovering new interests.LINK
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