Build generative AI and similarity search applications at virtually unlimited scale with Spanner

Spanner, Google Cloud’s fully managed, highly available distributed database service, combines virtually-unlimited horizontal scalability with relational semantics, for both relational and non-relational workloads — all with a 99.999% availability SLA. As data volumes grow and applications demand more from their operational databases, customers need scale. We recently announced support for searching vector embeddings with exact …

Testing an unsupervised deep learning model for robot imitation of human motions

Robots that can closely imitate the actions and movements of humans in real-time could be incredibly useful, as they could learn to complete everyday tasks in specific ways without having to be extensively pre-programmed on these tasks. While techniques to enable imitation learning considerably improved over the past few years, their performance is often hampered …

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Health-specific embedding tools for dermatology and pathology

Posted by Dave Steiner, Clinical Research Scientist, Google Health, and Rory Pilgrim, Product Manager Google Research There’s a worldwide shortage of access to medical imaging expert interpretation across specialties including radiology, dermatology and pathology. Machine learning (ML) technology can help ease this burden by powering tools that enable doctors to interpret these images more accurately …

6 ecommerce trends to watch

As the ecommerce market grows exponentially, six trends projected to heavily impact the global market are artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, live commerce, online-to-offline ecommerce, social commerce and voice assistants. Generative AI opens up greater opportunities for value-creating personalization, dynamic pricing, user-friendly chatbots, voice assistants, virtual assistants, and improved customer search. Social commerce, a form …