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Today Google announced groundbreaking new AI technology at Google IO.
The 10 most incredible examples:
1. Veo, a powerful AI video generator.
The text-to-video generator lets filmmakers write prompts to build cinematic shots.
2. Google will integrate AI natively in search.
You can ask whatever’s on your mind or whatever you need to get done — from researching to planning to brainstorming — and Google will take care of the legwork.
3. Astra, the future of AI assistants.
It can interact with the world around it by taking in information, remembering what it sees, processing that information and understanding contextual details.
4. Imagen 3: the highest quality text-to-image generation model yet.
It produces visuals with incredible detail, realistic lighting and fewer distracting artifacts.
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5. Gemini 1.5 Pro is now available for all.
They also increased the context window to 2 million tokens. This is the equivalent of 15 books, 1.5 million words.
6. Trillium, a TPU (GPU competitor) that delivers a 4.7x improvement in compute performance per chip over the previous generation, TPU v5e.
7. Gemini 1.5 Flash
A lighter-weight model, optimized for tasks where low latency and cost matter most.
Developers can use it with up to 1 million tokens in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.
8. Generative Music with MusicFX
MusicFX lets you unleash your inner DJ and craft new beats
Helps you mix beats by combining genres, instruments, and more to bring musical stories to life. It’s a playground for inspiring new music, and you can try it now.
9. Ask Gemini in Sheets for help analyzing your expenses with Data Q&A.
The ability to organize attachments in Drive, generate a sheet, and analyze data will roll out to Labs later this year.
10. Gemini will be integrated in Gmail, Docs and Calendar already work well together. It will make working across apps even easier — for example recognizing a receipt in Gmail and organizing it in Drive and Sheets.

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