📢 Another exciting step forward today with the launch of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. It natively understands audio, making it much more capable of handling complex instructions. It leads on ComplexFuncBench, and on Scale AI’s AudioMultiChallenge, demonstrating skill in complex instruction following and long-horizon reasoning amidst the interruptions of real-world audio. That means the model can pick up on nuances like pitch and pace, leading to much more fluid, high-fidelity voice interactions. It’s now powering Gemini Live and Search Live globally. Huge congrats to the teams that made this possible. ✨ blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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Google Named #1 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company 2026
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Google was just named #1 in the @FastCompany 2026 World’s Most Innovative Companies list. 🎉 Google is also ranked #1 in their Artificial Intelligence category. See the full story. fastcompany.com/most-innovat…
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Google DeepMind and Agile Robots Partner for Advanced Robots
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Google DeepMind 🤝 Agile Robots Our new research partnership will integrate the Gemini foundation models with their hardware to help build the next generation of more helpful and useful robots. Find out more → goo.gle/4lKu7de [Translated from EN to English]
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Google achieves 1 GW flexible demand milestone in cloud infrastructure
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Google is now the first cloud provider to integrate 1 GW of flexible demand into long-term utility contracts. Our ability to shift or reduce our energy demand when it’s needed can help utility companies balance supply/ demand and plan for future capacity needs. This is a big milestone for responsible data center growth and helps keep costs lower for local communities. blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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Google Reveals Gemini AI Name Meaning and Background
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Indeed, 'twas I. A bit more background here: https://
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Bennett and Brassard Win 2025 ACM Turing Award
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Congratulations to Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard for winning this year's @theofficialacm Turing Award! 🎉 They were recognized for their work on quantum information science & quantum cryptography. Google is proud to support the award to recognize groundbreaking CS work. Association for Computing Machinery (@TheOfficialACM) Congratulations to Charles H. Bennett (@IBMResearch) and Gilles Brassard ( @UMontreal) on receiving the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award! 🔗: awards.acm.org/turing — https://nitter.net/TheOfficialACM/status/2034193211363651763#m
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Google’s Production System Profiling for Performance Optimization
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Since much of Google's software is delivered as web-based services running in our datacenters, we often can just look across our production systems to see what kinds of things are consuming lots of cycles (via Google Wide Profiling: https://
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Google Research 2025: Linked Blog Post on Breakthroughs and Impact
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Internal version contains sensitive TPU compiler backend code examples
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The internal version also has additional examples in code that is more sensitive (e.g. changes to the TPU compiler backend) that we aren't able to include in the external version.
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Collection of Performance Optimization Tips and Tricks
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Many techniques are probably known to readers, but we felt it was nice to have a collection of tips and tricks, ranging from high-level algorithmic improvements to low-level performancer optimizations collected together.