Our Chief Technology Officer, Sergei Yakneen will be heading to BioTechX EU Congress in Basel on Monday, 6 October. BiotechX is Europe’s largest biotechnology conference and Sergei will open the event at 9am CEST with his keynote “AI Models from Atoms to Humans: the Era of Rational In Silico Drug Design”. AI is already helping us to understand disease like never before, but where are we going next? Sergei will explore tackling program failures like efficacy and safety, selecting the right targets, and going beyond individual proteins to examine complexes and molecular machines. He’ll set out a future where applying frontier AI will help unlock deeper scientific insights and faster breakthroughs with an ambition to solve all disease. If you are planning to attend, don't miss it.
Congratulations to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who have received the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work on AlphaFold, an AI system to predict the 3D structure of proteins. 🧬 The award celebrates the achievements of the world’s top scientists. Millions of researchers have now accessed the AlphaFold database to help accelerate scientific progress.
Soccer players have to master a range of dynamic skills, from turning and kicking to chasing a ball. How could robots do the same? ⚽ We trained our AI agents to demonstrate a range of agile behaviors using reinforcement learning. Here’s how. →
Our generative technology Imagen 2 can now create short, 4-second live images from a single prompt. 🖼 Here’s what you need to know: 🔵 It’s available to use in Google Cloud's #VertexAI platform to help enterprise workloads 🔵 We’re adding new advanced photo editing features, including inpainting and outpainting, to make it easier to remove unwanted elements, include new elements, and expand the borders of images to create a wider field of view 🔵 It comes with SynthID, a cutting-edge tool for watermarking and identifying AI-generated content Find out more. →
Our next-generation AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro is now available in public preview on Google Cloud's VertexAI platform. 🤝 Its long-context window is already helping businesses analyze large amounts of data, build AI-powered customer service agents and more. It also supports processing audio inputs - including music, speech, and even the audio portion of videos. This means it can give high-quality transcriptions or be used to search and analyze multimodal content. Find out more. →
“The positive direction [of AGI] is amazing science, things like AlphaFold… but we've got to make sure these systems are understandable and controllable.” 🌐 On the latest episode of Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast, he spoke with our CEO Demis Hassabis and discussed building AI safely, compute efficiency, multimodal feedback loops and more. Watch more. →
Our new AI model Genie can create playable worlds in the style of 2D platformers - all from a single image prompt, sketch or text description. ✏️ Game environments can also be an effective testbed for developing AI agents - but we are often limited by the number of environments available. With Genie, future systems could be trained in a never-ending curriculum of new, generated worlds. Here's how. ↓
