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Introducing sample GenAI Databases Retrieval App – augment your LLMs with Google Cloud databases

Today we are announcing the open-source GenAI Databases Retrieval App, now available on GitHub. This project is a sample application that demonstrates production-quality practices for using techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and ReACT to extend your gen AI application with information from Google Cloud databases. Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly powerful and …

An AI-based approach to microgrids that can restore power more efficiently and reliably in an outage

It’s a story that’s become all too familiar—high winds knock out a power line, and a community can go without power for hours to days, an inconvenience at best and a dangerous situation at worst. UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yu Zhang and his lab are leveraging tools to improve …

Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning

We share the discovery of 2.2 million new crystals – equivalent to nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge. We introduce Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME), our new deep learning tool that dramatically increases the speed and efficiency of discovery by predicting the stability of new materials.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

by Aditya Mavlankar, Zhi Li, Lukáš Krasula and Christos Bampis High dynamic range (HDR) video brings a wider range of luminance and a wider gamut of colors, paving the way for a stunning viewing experience. Separately, our invention of Dynamically Optimized (DO) encoding helps achieve optimized bitrate-quality tradeoffs depending on the complexity of the content. HDR was …

How blockchain enables trust in water trading

Australia pioneered water rights trading in the early 1900s, becoming a world leader in water sharing between valleys. The initiative extended throughout the states of Australia across the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). However, findings from the water market’s inquiry of the MDB, completed by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) and the Department of Climate …