Google has repositioned itself as an AI-focused company, with everything from Search and Android, to YouTube and its internal structure, shifting to accommodate for that pivot — and TechCrunch is here to cover every step of its evolution. Its Gemini model is being rolled out in more countries and across more use cases than ever, though its revenue remains tied to its existing advertising offerings.
Android’s new Theft Detection Lock helps deter smartphone snatch and grabs
When triggered, the AI-powered feature will automatically lock the device down.
Google TV to launch AI-generated movie descriptions
Gemini, the company’s family of generative AI models, will enhance the smart TV operating system so it can generate descriptions for movies and TV shows.
Google’s new Private Space feature is like Incognito Mode for Android
The space is available from the launcher and can be locked as a second layer of authentication.
Users will be able to access the AR content by first searching for a location in Google Maps.
Google adds ‘Web’ search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out
As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the…
Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features.
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap…
Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.
Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google
In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.
LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google’s Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.
Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube
The official launch comes almost a year after YouTube began experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app.
The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.
Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more
Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.
Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools
Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools.
Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024
Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and timelapses, and make edits and adjustments to already-generated footage.
In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyze attachments, like PDFs.
The summaries are created based on Gemini’s analysis of insights from Google Maps’ community of more than 300 million contributors.
Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service.
The system effectively listens for “conversation patterns commonly associated with scams” in-real time.
Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June
The standard Gemma models were only available in 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions, making this quite a step up.
This is a great example of a company using generative AI to open its software to more users.
Google’s Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems.
People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need.
Google will soon start using GenAI to organize some search results pages
A search results page based on generative AI as its ranking mechanism will have wide-reaching consequences for online publishers.
Google has built a custom Gemini model for search to combine real-time information, Google’s ranking, long context and multimodal features.
At its Google I/O developer conference, Google on Tuesday announced the next generation of its Tensor Processing Units (TPU) AI chips.
Google’s Gemini updates: How Project Astra is powering some of I/O’s big reveals
Google is upgrading Gemini, its AI-powered chatbot, with features aimed at making the experience more ambient and contextually useful.
Veo can generate few-seconds-long 1080p video clips given a text prompt.
At Google I/O, Google announced upgrades to Gemini 1.5 Pro, including a bigger context window. .
The AI upgrade will make finding the right content more intuitive and less of a manual search process.
