Reddit has struck a deal with Google that allows the search giant to use posts from the online discussion site for training its artificial intelligence models and to improve products such as online search. The arrangement, announced Thursday and valued at roughly $60 million, will also give Reddit access to Google AI models for improving its site search and other features. Separately, the San Francisco-based company announced plans for its initial public offering Wednesday. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Reddit said it reported net income of USD 18.5 million its first profit in two years in the October-December quarter on revenue of USD 249.8 million. The company said it aims to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT. The Google deal is a big step for Reddit, which relies on sometimes contentious volunteer moderators to run its sprawling array of freewheeling topic-based discussions. Those moderators have public
Last year, Reddit said it would charge companies for access to its application programming interface (API) - the means by which it distributes its content
Google is releasing the mid-sized multimodal Pro model of Gemini 1.5 for early testing with the ability to process more information compared to the Gemini 1.0.
AI-generated responses on earbuds and headphones would be in audio-only medium without any visual cues, according to the report
Gemini Advance is available at Rs 1950 per-month with a two-month trial period and support for Google Workspace services
Google on Thursday introduced a free artificial intelligence app that will implant the technology on smartphones, enabling people to quickly connect to a digital brain that can write for them, interpret what they're reading and seeing, in addition to helping manage their lives. With the advent of the Gemini app, named after an AI project unveiled late last year, Google will cast aside the Bard chatbot that it introduced a year ago in an effort to catch up with ChatGPT, the chatbot unleashed by the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI in late 2022. Google is immediately releasing a standalone Gemini app for smartphones running on its Android software. In a few weeks, Google will put Gemini's features into its existing search app for iPhones, where Apple would prefer people rely on its Siri voice assistant for handling various tasks. Although the Google voice assistant that has been available for years will stick around, company executives say they expect Gemini to become the main way use
Google is also likely to bring the Android app of its AI chatbot Bard soon after renaming it after the language model it is powered by - Gemini
Exclusive to Samsung and Google devices until September, the Circle to Search feature is likely to arrive on more Pixel and Galaxy devices before coming to Android smartphones from other brands
Google is also adding experimental generative AI features for Google Maps in the US, global roll-out expected in the coming months
Lumiere video generation AI model lets users apply text-based image editing methods for consistent video editing, said Google
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A lawyer for Singular Computing, founded by Massachusetts-based computer scientist Joseph Bates, told jurors that Google copied Bates' technology
The California-headquartered tech giant announced new additions to maps, including some features customised for Indian users, such as the landmark-based address descriptors
Among the new AI-powered experiences is the address descriptors, lens integration, and live view walking navigation. Below are the details of the features soon coming to Google Maps
Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people's science fiction fantasies of human-like machines. Catalysing a year of AI fanfare was ChatGPT. The chatbot gave the world a glimpse of recent advances in computer science even if not everyone figured out quite how it works or what to do with it. I would call this an inflection moment, pioneering AI scientist Fei-Fei Li said. 2023 is, in history, hopefully going to be remembered for the profound changes of the technology as well as the public awakening. It also shows how messy this technology is. It was a year for people to figure out what this is, how to use it, what's the impact all the good, the bad and the ugly," she said. PANIC OVER AI The first AI panic of 2023 set in soon after New Year's Day when classrooms reopened and schools from Seattle to Paris started blocking ChatGPT. Teenagers were already asking the chatbot released in late 2022
Gemini is currently available only in English but support for other languages are expected to come soon
If auto-backup is turned on, the recorded video will automatically upload and get boosted on Cloud when the feature is enabled
In addition to Gemini Nano, the broader family of Gemini models will bring new features and capabilities to Pixel devices and other Google products, starting next year
Google rolls out Gemini AI to Bard and Pixel Pro smartphones, coming to Search, Chrome and more soon
The AI-based text generator will check the contents of the page that the user is on to get more context