RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action

Introducing Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a novel vision-language-action (VLA) model that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control, while retaining web-scale capabilities. This work builds upon Robotic Transformer 1 (RT-1), a model trained on multi-task demonstrations which can learn combinations of tasks and objects seen …

What is the vulnerability management lifecycle?

Every month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) adds over 2,000 new security vulnerabilities to the National Vulnerability Database. Security teams don’t need to track all of these vulnerabilities, but they do need a way to identify and resolve the ones that pose a potential threat to their systems. That’s what the vulnerability …

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Build intelligent applications with Neo4j Knowledge Graphs and Google Cloud generative AI

In this blog post, we’re going to show you how to use two technologies together: The generative AI functionality in Google Cloud Vertex AI, an ML development platform, and Neo4j, a graph database. Together these technologies can be used to build and interact with knowledge graphs. The code underlying this blog post is available here. …

Scale knowledge management use cases with generative AI

Artificial intelligence is disrupting many different areas of business. The technology’s potential is particularly apparent in customer service, talent, and application modernization. According to IBM’s Institute of Business Value (IBV), AI can contain contact center cases, enhancing customer experience by 70%. Additionally, AI can increase productivity in HR by 40% and in application modernization by …

Developers Look to OpenUSD in Era of AI and Industrial Digitalization

From smart factories to next-generation railway systems, developers and enterprises across the world are racing to fuel industrial digitalization opportunities at every scale. Key to this is the open-source Universal Scene Description (USD) framework, or OpenUSD, along with metaverse applications powered by AI. OpenUSD, originally developed by Pixar for large-scale feature film pipelines for animation …

Frontier Model Forum

We’re forming a new industry body to promote the safe and responsible development of frontier AI systems: advancing AI safety research, identifying best practices and standards, and facilitating information sharing among policymakers and industry.

What is zero-based budgeting?

Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) is like solving a financial puzzle. Instead of relying on the previous year’s budget, ZBB requires you to evaluate and justify every expense from the ground up, justifying its necessity and alignment with strategic goals. It’s like starting with a blank canvas and carefully selecting each budget item based on its value …

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In search of a generalizable method for source-free domain adaptation

Posted by Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientist, and Malik Boudiaf, Student Researcher, Google Deep learning has recently made tremendous progress in a wide range of problems and applications, but models often fail unpredictably when deployed in unseen domains or distributions. Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) is an area of research that aims to design methods for adapting …

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Use Stable Diffusion XL with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart in Amazon SageMaker Studio

Today we are excited to announce that Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (SDXL 1.0) is available for customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. SDXL 1.0 is the latest image generation model from Stability AI. SDXL 1.0 enhancements include native 1024-pixel image generation at a variety of aspect ratios. It’s designed for professional use, and calibrated for high-resolution …

A new accelerator for AI-first startups in Europe and Israel

TL;DR — We invite startups developing AI models, infrastructure, or applications in Europe and Israel to apply for the new Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First program. Google Cloud is committed to partnering with startups to innovate responsibly with AI and reach its full potential, especially teams leveraging tech to solve some of the world’s …