Author: Advanced AI Bot

Commercial robotaxi company Waymo held a launch event in Japan last week, as the company prepares to enter early manual testing on its first international roads. After Waymo shared plans to start testing vehicles in Japan in December, the Google-owned firm detailed the launch event in a press release on Monday. The event featured officials from project partners GO, a taxi platform, and Nihon Kotsu, the largest taxi company in Tokyo, along with featuring one of the company’s camera-, lidar-, and radar-outfitted Jaguar I-Pace units, expected to begin manual testing around Tokyo in the weeks to come. Ichiro Kawanabe, Board…

Solve Intelligence, a genAI-driven IP startup, has gained $12m in Series A funding from: 20VC (lead), Microsoft (via Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Thomson Reuters (via Thomson Reuters Ventures), Y Combinator, and others. The platform helps inventors, in-house IP teams, and outside legal counsels ‘with every part of the patent process, e.g. harvesting invention disclosures, drafting patent applications, responding to office actions, freedom to operate analysis, claim charting, licensing, litigation’, they explained. They have built evaluations and algorithms to bridge the gap between the output from off-the-shelf AI models such as ChatGPT and professional-grade legal content, they added. Customers include DLA Piper…

TL;DR: CIOs face mounting pressure to adopt agentic AI — but skipping steps leads to cost overruns, compliance gaps, and complexity you can’t unwind. This post outlines a smarter, staged path to help you scale AI with control, clarity, and confidence. ​AI leaders are under immense pressure to implement solutions that are both cost-effective and secure. The challenge lies not only in adopting AI but also in keeping pace with advancements that can feel overwhelming.  This often leads to the temptation to dive headfirst into the latest innovations to stay competitive. However, jumping straight into complex multi-agent systems without a…

Earlier this year, we made the best of Google AI available across all our commercial Workspace plans. Including advanced AI capabilities in core Workspace plans isn’t just a feature update; it’s our belief in action. AI is essential, and its power belongs in the hands of every business and every employee. We’re committed to practical innovation that delivers tangible value, day in and day out.Businesses, large and small, have responded by putting AI to work for them: Gemini in Workspace now provides business users with more than 2 billion AI assists every month, helping people save time and get more…

L’Oreal Groupe: L’Oreal Groupe is leveraging Veo and Imagen to transform the end-to-end production of high-quality video and image assets, helping foster greater creative exploration across their global marketing initiatives and upholding their commitment to trustworthy AI. “By integrating Veo and Imagen into our creative process, we’re not just speeding up marketing content creation, we’re changing how we approach creativity. These models act as powerful creative partners, empowering our teams to experiment with new ideas and respond to the market. We’re expanding our qualitative  video and image production across 20 additional countries and languages, all while upholding our trustworthy AI…

C3 Generative AI-powered solutions will enhance digital transformation enterprise-wide, supporting complex national security and space-related challenges REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & CHANTILLY, Va., April 03, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–C3 AI (NYSE: AI), the Enterprise AI application software company, and Arcfield, a leading government technology and mission support provider, announced a customer collaboration to accelerate the design, development, and operation of production-grade Enterprise AI applications to better serve defense and intelligence agencies. Together, Arcfield and C3 AI will leverage the C3 Agentic AI Platform and C3 Generative AI to support the development, deployment, and maintenance of Enterprise AI applications for Arcfield. With the capabilities…

Chinese tech giants like Alibaba (BABA), Tencent (TCEHY), and ByteDance have placed over $16 billion in orders for Nvidia’s (NVDA) H20 AI chips during the first quarter of 2025, according to The Information. The rush in demand comes amid concerns that the U.S. may soon ban the sale of these chips to China. While Nvidia has not commented, these orders could significantly boost revenue if the company manages to deliver the chips before any restrictions take effect.Don’t Miss Our End of Quarter Offers: The H20 is currently allowed in China, but it’s less powerful than Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which are…

But a collaboration between Google’s Cloud and DeepMind research divisions didn’t only rely on off-the-shelf AI-upscaling techniques to create a new version of The Wizard of Oz with enough resolution for the Sphere’s 16,000 pixel by 16,000 pixel screen. The team at Google used “fine-tuned Gemini models, Veo 2, and Imagen 3 to intelligently enhance the film’s resolution, extend backgrounds, and digitally recreate existing characters who would otherwise not appear on the same screen.”To make audiences feel more immersed as if they were part of the movie, scenes that originally cut back and forth between characters due to framing limitations…

Existing reasoning evaluation frameworks for Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) predominantly either assess text-based reasoning or vision-language understanding capabilities, with limited dynamic interplay between textual and visual constraints. To address this limitation, we introduce CrossWordBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of both LLMs and LVLMs through the medium of crossword puzzles-a task requiring multimodal adherence to semantic constraints from text-based clues and intersectional constraints from visual grid structures. CrossWordBench leverages a controllable puzzle generation framework that produces puzzles in multiple formats (text and image) and offers different evaluation strategies ranging from direct puzzle…

IBL News | New York Stability AI released in research preview mode this week Stable Virtual Camera, a model that transforms 2D images into immersive 3D scenes with realistic depth and perspective. With its tool, Stability is adding generative AI to virtual cameras, often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in real-time. The model is available for research use under a noncommercial license. It can be downloaded on Hugging Face, and the code is accessible on GitHub. The full research paper is here. “We invite the research community to explore its capabilities and contribute to…