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Everything you need to know about Google I/O Keynote

oogle kicks off its developer and territories, but it’s also launching age” feature and new markup in the PIXEL 7A
conference each year with support for Japanese and Korean file itself that will allow images to be Google’s Pixel 7a goes on sale
Ga rapid-fire stream of an- with a goal of supporting 40 languag- labelled as “AI-generated.” May 11 at USD100 less than the Pixel
nouncements, including many unveil- es in the near future. Both of these are extensions of 7 (USD 499). Like the Pixel 6a, it has
ings of recent things it’s been working It’s also working for Bard’s abil- work already going on, but is meant the 6.1-inch screen versus the 6.4-
on. Have a look at these new an- ity to surface images in its respons- to provide more transparency on if inch Pixel 7. It also launched in India.
nouncements, which were promised es. In addition, Google is partnering the “image is credible or AI-gener-
at this year Google I/O keynote. with Adobe for some art generation ated,” albeit not an end-all-be-all of PIXEL FOLD
capabilities via Bard. addressing the larger problem of AI One of the big announcements
PALM 2 image misinformation. that already dropped is that Google
Google’s newest large language MUSICLM used May 4 (aka “May the Fourth Be
model (LLM) is Palm 2. According MusicLM is Google’s new exper- GOOGLE CLOUD With You” Day) to unveil it will have
to Tech Crunch website, “PaLM 2 imental AI tool that turns text into There’s a new A3 supercom- a foldable Pixel phone.
will power Google’s updated Bard music. For example, if you are host- puter virtual machine in town. Ac-
chat tool, the company’s competitor ing a dinner party, you can simply cording to TechCrunch, “this A3 UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR
to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and function type, “soulful jazz for a dinner party” has been purpose-built to handle Google is testing a powerful new
as the foundation model for most of and have the tool create several ver- the considerable demands of these translation service that puts video
the new AI features the company is sions of the song. resource-hungry use cases,” noting into a new language while also syn-
announcing today.” that A3 is “armed with NVIDIA’s chronizing the speaker’s lips with
PaLM 2 also now features im- SEARCH H100 GPUs and combining that words they never spoke. Called
proved support for writing and de- Google Search has two new with a specialized data center to de- “Universal Translator,” it was shown
bugging code. features surrounding better under- rive immense computational power as “an example of something only re-
standing of content and the context with high throughput and low la- cently made possible by advances in
BARD GETS SMARTER of an image the user is viewing in the tency, all at what they suggest is a AI, but simultaneously presenting se-
Google is not only removing its search results. more reasonable price point than rious risks that have to be reckoned
waitlist for Bard and making its avail- The new feature includes more you would typically pay for such a with from the start,” reported Tech
able, in English, in over 180 countries information with an “About this Im- package.” Crunch.

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