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Before stepping down as CEO, DeepMind co-founder Hassabis discussed creating an independent AI safety body with U.S. officials and AI lab leaders, focusing on AGI safety mechanisms and best practices, likening it to the IAEA, per WSJ.....
Google DeepMind launched the multilingual sign language to text model SL2T, which is first integrated into the Pixel11 smartphone, bringing sign language AI into consumer electronics. The model is integrated with Gboard and Live Transcribe, allowing users to edit messages, perform web searches, and converse with Gemini by signing through the front camera, replacing keyboard input. SL2T is trained on more than 50 sign languages, using 100,000 hours of materials, with about a quarter coming from the American Sign Language dataset, and cross-language joint training enhances recognition performance.
Google AI leadership shifts: Demis Hassabis steps back from daily management at DeepMind, becoming Chairman and Alphabet Chief Scientist; Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years to co-found a new startup with three senior researchers. Alphabet shares fell nearly 4%. Hassabis remains involved, and the Gemini 4 project advances.....
Google DeepMind launches the new generation music generation model Lyria 3.5, which significantly improves musicality, lyrical and vocal expressiveness, and creative control, allowing the construction of more complex and natural melodic structures, and advancing AI music toward professional applications.
Google DeepMind has quietly disbanded the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team. Core figures Hassabis and Jumper just won the 2024 chemistry Nobel for this system, but over the past year, most original paper authors have been reassigned to other projects, breaking up the star team.....