Google I/O 2024 🎯- Recap

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AI,AI,AI…Nowadays everything is AI.🤖

Yesterday i.e. on May 14, Google I/O 2024 is done and dusted, and it had a lot of announcements. If you missed the live event, here’s a full recap of announcements and updates.

📌Gemini 1.5 Flash:

Gemini 1.5 Flash is a new, lightweight model designed for speed and efficiency, developers can use it with up to 1 million tokens in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

📌Google Workspace:

Google has integrated Gemini 1.5 Pro into Workspace apps like Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheet, and Slide. This AI assistant can fetch information from documents and automate tasks, potentially improving productivity for paid subscribers starting next month.

📌 Veo: New Generative Video Model

Google introduces a new video generation model that creates high-quality 1080P videos from text, image, and video prompts.

📌 VideoFX:

VideoFX is a text-to-video tool with a new ‘storyboard’ interface for scene-by-scene creation and music addition.

📌 Project Astra:

Google is building an AI agent to see and hear your activities live in real-time. It understands the visual inputs from your device’s camera and perform tasks for you. It is designed to be a real-time, multimodal AI that can see, recognize objects, answer questions, and help with various tasks in a conversational manner.

📌 Google Lens:

Google Lens now lets you search the web using video. You can record a video of something you’re curious about, ask questions while recording, and Google’s AI will provide relevant answers.

📌 LearnLM AI:

Google is building responsible AI safeguards to protect against misuse and new tools that use AI to make learning more engaging and accessible.

📌 Google Photos:

Google’s new Ask Photos feature uses the Gemini AI model to enhance photo searches by allowing you to ask questions about your Google Photos library. This feature can retrieve specific information.

📌 Google Search:

Google now ennhanced AI Overviews, advanced planning tools, and AI-organized search results.

📌Gemini Nano:

Google is developing a feature that can detect when a conversation is a scam and warn you in real-time. The processing happens right on your phone and stays private to you.