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Gemini 1.5: Google touts AI to vet troves of content in seconds; CEO Sundar Pichai predicts profit
15Feb By adminNo Comments
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Gemini 1.5: Google touts AI to vet troves of content in seconds; CEO Sundar Pichai predicts profit

[ad_1] Reading "War and Peace," Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel that runs half a million words long and often over 1,000 pages, might be a minute-long affair for a new artificial intelligence model from Google. The Alphabet-owned company on Thursday showcased Gemini 1.5, an upgrade to its suite of AI models it announced two months ago. In a single prompt, a user can ask Google's AI to analyze vastly more content than before -- 30,000 lines of code, 11 hours of audio, a whole hour of video, Google said. That's for Pro, the family's mid-sized model. In concrete terms, Pro can process 1 million pieces of data known as tokens -- five times the amount that Anthropic, perhaps the closet competitor in this regard, handles in a query of its Claude 2.1 technology. Reuters was unable to independ...
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Alphabet CEO Pichai Set to Testify in Google Play Trial
8Oct By adminNo Comments
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Alphabet CEO Pichai Set to Testify in Google Play Trial

[ad_1] Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is set to be called by Epic Games Inc. to testify in an antitrust trial over Google Play policies that could threaten billions of dollars in revenue generated by the app marketplace.Pichai and Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney have been listed as witnesses in a trial scheduled to start Nov. 6 in San Francisco federal court over whether Google Play policies are unlawful and thwart competition, according to court filings. The high-stakes fight kicked off after Epic sued Alphabet's Google in 2020 claiming that its app store's distribution, payment and fee policies are unlawful. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. The dispute is part of a sprawling antitrust fight that also includes complaints filed by attorneys general of almost three doze...
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Biden meets Microsoft, Google CEOs on AI dangers
5May By adminNo Comments
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Biden meets Microsoft, Google CEOs on AI dangers

[ad_1] President Joe Biden attended a White House meeting with CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally.Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public's fancy, sparking a rush among companies to launch similar products they believe will change the nature of work. Millions of users have begun testing such tools, which supporters say can make medical diagnoses, write screenplays, create legal briefs and debug software, leading to growing concern about how the technology could lead to privacy violations, skew employment decisions, and power scams and ...
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Google chief Sundar Pichai: India is a part of me
4Dec By adminNo Comments
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Google chief Sundar Pichai: India is a part of me

[ad_1] “India is a part of me and I carry it with me wherever I go," Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said, “India is a part of me and I carry it with me wherever I go," Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said, as he received the prestigious Padma Bhushan award from the Indian envoy to the US. Indian-American Pichai was awarded the Padma Bhushan for 2022 in the Trade and Industry category. The Madurai-born Pichai was named one of the 17 awardees earlier this year. He received India's third-highest civilian award in the presence of his close family members in San Francisco on Friday. “I am deeply grateful to the Indian government and the people of India for this immense honour. It is incredibly meaningful to be honoured in this way by the country that shaped me," 50-year...
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