# Introduction
Even as AI can now generate huge amounts of code, system design remains one of the few skills that cannot be easily replaced. Writing code is only one part of building real products. Designing scalable, reliable, and efficient systems still requires experience, trade-offs, stakeholder discussions, and strong engineering judgment.
That is…
Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-VL-450M, an updated version of its earlier LFM2-VL-450M vision-language model. The new release introduces bounding box prediction, improved instruction following, expanded multilingual understanding, and function calling support — all within a 450M-parameter footprint designed to run directly on edge hardware ranging from embedded AI modules like NVIDIA Jetson Orin, to mini-PC…
The Asia-Pacific region is a global engine for economic growth, but it's also highly vulnerable to climate change. While green technologies are gaining momentum, a recent report shows they aren’t scaling fast enough to keep up with the region’s rising environmental risks. To help innovators tackle these environmental challenges, we’re launching an inaugural Google DeepMind…
# Introduction
TurboQuant is a novel algorithmic suite and library recently launched by Google. Its goal is to apply advanced quantization and compression to large language models (LLMs) and vector search engines — indispensable elements of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems — to improve their efficiency drastically. TurboQuant has been shown to successfully reduce…
For years, the computer vision community has operated on two separate tracks: generative models (which produce images) and discriminative models (which understand them). The assumption was straightforward — models good at making pictures aren’t necessarily good at reading them. A new paper from Google, titled “Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners” (arXiv:2604.20329), published April 22,…
How Nano Banana Pro helps you bring any idea or design to life Nano Banana Pro can help you visualize any idea and design anything — from prototypes, to representing data as infographics, to turning handwritten notes into diagrams. With Nano Banana Pro, now you can: Generate more accurate, context-rich visuals based on enhanced reasoning,…
Ever built a model that nailed 95% accuracy… but tanked for half your users? Yeah, me too. Spent weeks on data. Trained overnight. Launched with hype. Then complaints rolled in. “Why does it always pick the same type?” Ouch. That’s bias sneaking in. Not some abstract tech term. It’s when systems spit out unfair results…
# Introduction
Large language models (LLMs) have a taste for using "flowery", sometimes overly verbose language in their responses. Ask a simple question, and chances are you may get flooded with paragraphs of overly detailed, enthusiastic, and complex prose. This usual behavior is rooted in their training, as they are optimized to be…
If you’ve ever watched a motion capture system struggle with a person’s fingers, or seen a segmentation model fail to distinguish teeth from gums, you already understand why human-centric computer vision is hard. Humans are not just objects, they come with articulated structure, fine surface details, and enormous variation in pose, clothing, lighting, and ethnicity.…