Vinson·Li
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On google

  1. Veo 3 has sound, and that changes the medium

    Google's Veo 3 generates video with synchronized dialogue, sound effects and ambient audio. Sound turns clips into scenes. Also at I/O: a language model that writes by denoising.

    2 min
  2. Natively multimodal

    Google announced Gemini, trained from the start on text, images, audio and video together. Why training on mixed modalities from day one matters more than bolting vision onto a language model.

    2 min
  3. 200 seconds vs. 10,000 years

    Google claims quantum supremacy with a 53-qubit chip. What the chip actually computed, why IBM disputes the number, and why there's still no workload.

    2 min
  4. Google built its own chip for neural nets

    The Tensor Processing Unit has been running in Google's data centers for a year. When a company designs custom silicon for a workload, the workload is here to stay.

    2 min
  5. Google Photos gives away what I spent two years building

    Unlimited storage and automatic face grouping, free. What happens to small companies when a platform ships their feature as a default.

    2 min