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@pushmeet
Pushmeet Kohli
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The results of the research happening in my team @GoogleDeepMind have convinced me that the next era of scientific discovery will be aided by AI agents acting as force multipliers for human ingenuity. That's why I'm proud to introduce Gemini for Science - a collection of
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@vivnat
Vivek Natarajan
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Out of all the announcements at @Google I/O today, this is the one closest to my heart - our foundational research on Co-Scientist was published in @Nature and we announced its broad availability via @GeminiApp for Science. When you are suffering from a disease, time is [video]
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@erictopol
Eric Topol
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A big day for multi-agent AI to accelerate biomedical discovery, hypothesis generation, designing experiments with proof points of new candidate drugs (cancer, fibrosis, macular degeneration, antimicrobial resistance, and more) 2 @Nature reports @GoogleDeepMind @FutureHouseSF
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@emollick
Ethan Mollick
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Got to play with a little of this before launch as well. My experience as a social scientist was that it was more bioscience focused right now, but I think Google has been the leading lab in releasing serious AI tools to accelerate science & expect to see them improve fast.
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@deryatr_
Derya Unutmaz
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Gemini for Science! I've been saying this for some time: we have now entered a new phase in science, I call it Science 3.0, with research becoming completely AI-assisted! Google DeepMind is pushing this to the next frontier with very useful AI models and modules!
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@keranrong
Keran R
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Congrats, team! 🥳 And this is my first @Nature paper and my first paper with my ex-boss @demishassabis as well! 🥳 (well, if we don't count for @GeminiApp papers lol)
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@google
@google
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Industry-wide collaboration on content transparency tech is key to a trusted web. 🤝 We're accelerating the momentum started with @NVIDIA and partnering with @OpenAI, Kakao, and @ElevenLabs to bring SynthID to their generative content — helping give everyone more helpful context […
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@openai
@openai
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We're adding new ways for people to identify AI-generated images and understand where they came from. In addition to C2PA Content Credentials, images now also contain a SynthID watermark, and can be identified using a public verification tool to check whether an image was made
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@mirandanazzaro
Miranda Nazzaro
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Interesting timing given Take It Down Act enforcement today
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@samcharrington
Sam Charrington
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@sundarpichai ... Next up Sundar announces Gemini 3.5 Flash pushing the frontier of intelligence and output speed #googleio [image]
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@pushmeet
Pushmeet Kohli
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Really happy to see @OpenAI adopt @GoogleDeepMind's SynthID for watermarking AI generated images. We need more such cross industry partnerships for enabling responsible use of AI systems.
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@gdb
Greg Brockman
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SynthID for checking if an image was generated by OpenAI:
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Leonard Rosenthol
Leonard Rosenthol
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Google steps up to help the industry being Content Credentials to users! — https://lnkd.in/...
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Kent Walker
Kent Walker
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Three years ago, Google introduced SynthID, our industry-leading digital watermarking technology. — Since then, we've integrated SynthID …
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@poolio
Ben Poole
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Real-world models are here! Stoked to share how we're bringing real-world locations to life by integrating Street View into Genie. Try it now at https://labs.google/... and read the blog for more info: https://blog.google/... [video]
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@bilawalsidhu
Bilawal Sidhu
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Woot! You can now simulate real world places by grounding Genie 3 experiences with Street View imagery. Google sitting on the mother lode of real world data, and is starting to put it to work! Let's dive into some prompts & locations I tested... [video]
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@jparkerholder
Jack Parker-Holder
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Last year on 60 minutes we talked about the potential to ground our world models with Street View data. Thanks to hard work from @poolio and others this is now possible—Genie can simulate worlds based on real locations, and you can try it too!! Check out the blog for more info
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@venturetwins
Justine Moore
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I got to “play” a world model in real life. The @GoogleDeepMind folks set up a crazy demo for Genie. You select glowing orbs to represent your scene and character. It loads the world in the model, and you navigate with joysticks like a video game 🕹️ [video]
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@shlomifruchter
Shlomi Fruchter
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Since we launched Project Genie, we hear from users that they want to explore worlds built around real locations. Genie now lets you ground your experience in real locations from Street View! [video]
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@poolio
Ben Poole
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By connecting Google's massive-scale Street View imagery to our most powerful world models, we unlock more realistic simulators for agents and new creative opportunities in your favorite locations. Here's a watercolor version of sweater frog on a bicycle at the top of Hawk Hill: …
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@holynski_
Aleksander Holynski
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My whole life, I've wanted to be an elephant riding a motorcycle through my hometown. Now, it's finally possible. [video]
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@jparkerholder
Jack Parker-Holder
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My personal favourite thing to do is revisit my old apartment in NYC, it hits different when the world is dynamic
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@venturetwins
Justine Moore
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Cool new launch for Project Genie ✨ World generation is now grounded with Google Maps. Pick a real-world location, restyle it, and draft a character to explore the scene. I turned @a16z SF into a desert and wandered around as a camel. [video]