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Google DeepMind Unveils AI Film Creation Tools at Sundance
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Our animated short film "Dear Upstairs Neighbors" is previewing today at @sundancefest! In creating this film, our @GoogleDeepMind team of Pixar alumni, an Academy Award winner, researchers, and engineers designed new AI capabilities specifically for filmmakers.
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) 26 janvier 2026
Here’s how these… pic.twitter.com/GBOL1vCdNYOur animated short film "Dear Upstairs Neighbors" is previewing today at @sundancefest
! In creating this film, our @GoogleDeepMind team of Pixar alumni, an Academy Award winner, researchers, and engineers designed new AI capabilities specifically for filmmakers. Here’s how these -
Yi Tay leads DeepMind’s reasoning breakthrough with on-policy RL
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From pre-training breakthroughs to leading reasoning + RL work inside Google DeepMind’s Gemini org, Yi Tay has had a front-row seat to how modern LLMs evolved from “scale + objectives” into the on-policy RL era powering today’s reasoning leap. Now he's helping assemble DeepMind’s… pic.twitter.com/JRxIhp0kYg
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 26 janvier 2026From pre-training breakthroughs to leading reasoning + RL work inside Google DeepMind’s Gemini org, Yi Tay has had a front-row seat to how modern LLMs evolved from “scale + objectives” into the on-policy RL era powering today’s reasoning leap. Now he's helping assemble DeepMind’s
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Maia 200 outperforms Amazon Trainium v3 and Google TPUv7
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Remarkable numbers when you look SxS. Maia 200 is 3x the FP4 perf of the Amazon Trainium v3, and FP8 performance above Google’s TPUv7. The most performant first party silicon of any hyperscaler.
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Meta Unveils Maia 200 Inference Chip with Superior Performance
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Our Maia 200 inference chip, announced today, is most performant first party silicon of any hyperscaler. 3x the FP4 performance of the Amazon Trainium v3, and FP8 performance above Google’s TPUv7.
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Superintelligence Team First to Use Maia 200 Hardware
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It's a big day. Our Superintelligence team will be the first to use Maia 200 as we develop our frontier AI models. https://t.co/3Vt38ajobR
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) 26 janvier 2026It's a big day. Our Superintelligence team will be the first to use Maia 200 as we develop our frontier AI models.
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FourcastNet: NVIDIA’s AI Weather Forecasting Innovation Advances
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In 2021 at @nvidia I led the release of FourcastNet the first fully AI based high resolution weather model. More than a year later @GoogleDeepMind released graphcast following our work. Proud to see further progress including FourCastNet 3 https://t.co/CC5YTXO6Ps
— Prof. Anima Anandkumar (@AnimaAnandkumar) 26 janvier 2026In 2021 at @nvidia I led the release of FourcastNet the first fully AI based high resolution weather model. More than a year later @GoogleDeepMind released graphcast following our work. Proud to see further progress including FourCastNet 3
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Robotics Week: Optimus Launch, Driverless Taxis, Swarm Robots
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Top stories in robotics today: – Musk: Optimus to go on sale in 2027
– Union slams Hyundai’s Atlas push
– Tesla’s Austin driverless robotaxis are live
– These swarm robots bloom like flowers – Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
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Microsoft adds Personalities selector to Copilot
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Microsoft is working on Personalities for Copilot. Users will be able to select between Concise, Imaginative, Nerdy, Realistic, Casual, Supportive and Default. Personality selector will be accessible directly from the conversation page. Better late than never Full scoop
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Tech CEO Requires Restaurant Shifts for Employee Empathy
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I’m a tech CEO. Here’s why my employees are required to work a restaurant shift https://
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… #technews #technology #empathy #CX