Simulations illuminate the path to post-event traffic flow

Posted by Yechen Li and Neha Arora, Software Engineers, Google Research Fifteen minutes. That’s how long it took to empty the Colosseum, an engineering marvel that’s still standing as the largest amphitheater in the world. Two thousand years later, this design...

VideoPoet: A large language model for zero-shot video generation

Posted by Dan Kondratyuk and David Ross, Software Engineers, Google Research A recent wave of video generation models has burst onto the scene, in many cases showcasing stunning picturesque quality. One of the current bottlenecks in video generation is in the ability...

Seven Things to Know About the Student Loan Payment Count Adjustment

Borrowers Have More Time to Consolidate Loans to Benefit from the Adjustment By: Federal Student Aid Chief Operating Officer Richard Cordray Since this summer, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) has approved almost $44 billion in debt relief for more than...

StyleDrop: Text-to-image generation in any style

Posted by Kihyuk Sohn and Dilip Krishnan, Research Scientists, Google Research Text-to-image models trained on large volumes of image-text pairs have enabled the creation of rich and diverse images encompassing many genres and themes. Moreover, popular styles such as...

Advancements in machine learning for machine learning

Posted by Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Bryan Perozzi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research With the recent and accelerated advances in machine learning (ML), machines can understand natural language,...

Image recognition accuracy: An unseen challenge confounding today’s AI

Imagine you are scrolling through the photos on your phone and you come across an image that at first you can’t recognize. It looks like maybe something fuzzy on the couch; could it be a pillow or a coat? After a couple of seconds it clicks — of course! That ball of...