The Asia-Pacific region is a global engine for economic growth, but it's also highly vulnerable to climate change. While green technologies are gaining momentum, a recent report shows they aren’t scaling fast enough to keep up with the region’s rising environmental risks. To help innovators tackle these environmental challenges, we’re launching an inaugural Google DeepMind…
# Introduction to Claude Cowork
Most people who use Claude like a smarter search engine. Type something in, read the response, copy it somewhere useful, then come back and do it again. That loop works fine for quick questions. It does not work for the kind of deep, file-heavy, multi-step knowledge work that…
Street View: ground your worlds in real places When creating imaginative worlds in Project Genie, you can now also base them on real places. Just tap the Maps pin to choose a place in the U.S. and optionally select a style for your world, like “Desert Sands” or “Stone Age.” Then, describe your character —…
# Introduction
Time series feature engineering doesn't follow the same rules as tabular data. Observations aren't independent, row order isn't incidental, and the most useful features are rarely individual readings. You'll have to identify patterns across time like rates of change, lag comparisons, deviations from a rolling baseline, and more.
Building lags, sliding…
Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-VL-450M, an updated version of its earlier LFM2-VL-450M vision-language model. The new release introduces bounding box prediction, improved instruction following, expanded multilingual understanding, and function calling support — all within a 450M-parameter footprint designed to run directly on edge hardware ranging from embedded AI modules like NVIDIA Jetson Orin, to mini-PC…
Weather predictions need to capture the full range of possibilities — including worst case scenarios, which are the most important to plan for. WeatherNext 2 can predict hundreds of possible weather outcomes from a single starting point. Each prediction takes less than a minute on a single TPU; it would take hours on a supercomputer…
Ever built a model that nailed 95% accuracy… but tanked for half your users? Yeah, me too. Spent weeks on data. Trained overnight. Launched with hype. Then complaints rolled in. “Why does it always pick the same type?” Ouch. That’s bias sneaking in. Not some abstract tech term. It’s when systems spit out unfair results…
# Introduction
JSON is great for APIs, storage, and application logic. But inside large language model (LLM) pipelines, it often carries a lot of token overhead that does not add much value to the model: braces, quotes, commas, and repeated field names on every row. TOON, short for Token-Oriented Object Notation, is a…
If you’ve ever watched a motion capture system struggle with a person’s fingers, or seen a segmentation model fail to distinguish teeth from gums, you already understand why human-centric computer vision is hard. Humans are not just objects, they come with articulated structure, fine surface details, and enormous variation in pose, clothing, lighting, and ethnicity.…