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šŸ¤– Google I/O 2024: Every Major AI Announcement

PLUS: Metaā€™s AI-Assisted Earbuds With Cameras, Studio-Quality Audio in Seconds for Free

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In todayā€™s AI Report:

  • šŸ—£Google I/O 2024: Every Major AI Announcement

  • šŸŽ§Metaā€™s AI-Assisted Earbuds With Cameras

  • šŸŽ™Studio-Quality Audio in Seconds for Free

  • šŸ› 5 Trending Tools

  • šŸ’°Venture Capital Updates

  • šŸ’¼Whoā€™s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

GOOGLE

šŸ—£Google I/O 2024: Every Major AI Announcement

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During the Google I/O 2024 developer conference, the company announced an expanded context window for ā€œGemini 1.5 Pro,ā€ unveiled ā€œGemini 1.5 Flash,ā€ and introduced ā€œImagen 3.ā€

Key Details:
  1. Google expanded the context window for ā€œGemini 1.5 Proā€ to 2 million tokens and implemented quality improvements across key use cases, including translation, coding, and reasoning.

  2. Google unveiled ā€œGemini 1.5 Flash,ā€ a small multimodal conversational chatbot optimized for high-frequency tasks encompassing text, image, audio, or video inputs.

  3. Google introduced ā€œImagen 3,ā€ the companyā€™s highest-quality text-to-image model that generates photorealistic, lifelike images.

  4. Google developed ā€œTrillium,ā€ a next-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) for the companyā€™s data centers. This TPU focuses on matrix math and offers high-speed calculations to optimize AI workloads.

  5. Google rolled out ā€œAI Overviews,ā€ previously known as Search Generative Experience (SEO), to provide AI-generated summaries at the top of Google Search results.

  6. Google presented ā€œModel Explorer,ā€ a novel graph visualizer tool that streamlines the deployment of large models to on-device platforms like mobile phones.

  7. Google expanded SynthID, which adds watermarks to AI-generated text, image, audio, and video outputs.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • The ā€œTrilliumā€ TPUs are designed to accelerate AI workloads in Googleā€™s data centers by handling massive matrix calculations efficiently. This efficiency translates to faster training times and more powerful AI applications.

  • The increased context window of 2 million tokens allows Gemini 1.5 Pro to understand and respond to complex queries with deeper context, improving translation, coding, and reasoning tasks.

META

šŸŽ§Metaā€™s AI-Assisted Earbuds With Cameras

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Meta is reportedly developing AI-powered earbuds with cameras called ā€œCamerabudsā€ to identify objects and translate foreign languages.

Key Details:
  • ā€œCamerabudsā€ would use built-in cameras to map a userā€™s surroundings, identify objects, interact with a virtual assistant, and translate foreign languages using built-in cameras.

  • Meta already has a Ray-Ban smart glasses collection that enables users to share their views on video calls via WhatsApp and Messenger completely hands-free.

  • Employees claim Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reviewed numerous designs for the ā€œCamerabudsā€ but hasnā€™t been satisfied.

  • Metaā€™s ā€œCamerabudsā€ have potential challenges, including bulkiness, heat generation, and privacy concerns. The social media giantā€™s engineers reportedly worry about battery life and the earbuds overheating.

  • Metaā€™s design team struggles with a commonly overlooked issue: long-haired users blocking the cameras and sensors with their hair.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • Meta is developing AI-based wearable devices. It integrates multimodal AI capabilities into glasses and earbuds to create a seamless, hands-free, on-the-go experience.

  • The ā€œCamerabudsā€ attempt to provide ambient computing at scale: the seamless integration of technology into our surrounding environment to automate tasks and enhance daily lives.

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AI TIPS

šŸŽ™Studio-Quality Audio in Seconds for Free

Adobeā€™s AI-powered Enhance Speech tool transforms voice recordings into studio-quality audio in seconds.

Hereā€™s How You Can Use It:
  1. Navigate to Adobeā€™s Enhance Speech website here.

  2. Sign up for free using a Google, Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft account.

  3. Upload your audio by selecting ā€œChoose Fileā€ or dragging and dropping the audio file.

  4. Wait a few seconds as Adobeā€™s Enhance Speech tool removes unwanted noises from your audio file.

  5. Youā€™re all set!šŸŽ‰ Download your new studio-quality audio and hear the difference.

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šŸ’¼WHOā€™S HIRING?

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  • AMD (Santa Clara, CA): Undergrad Product Development Engineering Intern/Co-Op, Fall 2024

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