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Google shipped sign-language-to-text on Pixel, trained on 100,000 hours of signing News
Google DeepMind released SL2T, a model that translates sign language directly to text and now powers signing input in Gboard and Live Transcribe, trained on more than 100,000 hours of data across over 50 sign languages.
WeatherNext called Melissa's Category 5 landfall five days out News
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext predicted Hurricane Melissa's Category 5 landfall in Jamaica five days ahead at 80% confidence, and its five-day track forecasts averaged about 140 kilometres closer than the European ensemble -- roughly a day and a half of extra warning.
Hassabis hands DeepMind to a non-CEO and takes an Alphabet job News
Demis Hassabis is giving up day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to become chair and Alphabet's chief scientist, with Koray Kavukcuoglu running the lab as a senior vice-president rather than as CEO.
Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to build an AI that runs the experiments itself News
Alphabet announced on August 5 that Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le are leaving to found Discovery Loop, a startup betting that thousands of parallel automated experiments beat the human research loop, while Demis Hassabis hands off day-to-day control of Google DeepMind.
Kaggle Names Winners of DeepMind's AGI Benchmark Hackathon, and They're About Knowing What You Don't Know News
Kaggle announced the four grand-prize winners of Google DeepMind's Measuring Progress Toward AGI hackathon, and all four winning benchmarks test uncertainty, self-knowledge, and in-context learning rather than broad AGI claims.
A $25,000 DeepMind Benchmark Contest Was Won by Alleged AI Slop News
A researcher alleges the grand-prize winner of a DeepMind-sponsored Kaggle contest to design AGI benchmarks was low-quality AI-generated work, and that the judging process itself showed signs of being run by LLMs.
Hassabis proposes a FINRA for frontier AI News
Demis Hassabis published a governance framework calling for a US-led, industry-funded standards body that would review frontier models 30 days before release and could eventually coordinate an industry-wide slowdown.
DeepMind Sketches Four Roads From Human-Level AI to Superintelligence News
A new report from senior DeepMind researchers lays out four ways AI could push past human-level ability -- and argues the leap is more likely to be a steady climb than a single dramatic jump.
Gboard sign-to-text Tool
Sign to your phone anywhere you would normally type, in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel. Powered by Google DeepMind's SL2T model, starting with American Sign Language to English.