Most robotics launches ask you to trust a demo video. Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, is instead shipping the training loop. This week it opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm bipedal robot in which every movement — walking, sitting, kicking, roller-skating, standing back up after a fall — is a…
Every day, your organization produces a mountain of words. Support tickets, contracts, clinical notes, customer reviews, emails, call transcripts. Roughly 80% of all enterprise data exists as unstructured text like this — and until recently, almost none of it could be analyzed at scale. It just sat there. Natural Language Processing changed that. And in 2026, with large…
For a while, the default assumption was that bigger meant better. Developers routed their applications through cloud APIs, accepting latency, usage costs, and data exposure as unavoidable trade-offs. That assumption no longer holds.
Small language models (SLMs) have matured significantly. These models typically range from 1 billion to 13 billion parameters, compact enough to…
Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and occluded structure convincingly, yet PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, ReMOVE and CFD frequently rank their outputs the wrong way. The root cause is structural: erasure is an ill-posed, one-to-many task, so no single ground truth exists to…
A note from Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: Nearly two years ago we kicked off the Gemini era, one of our biggest scientific and product endeavors ever undertaken as a company. Since then, it’s been incredible to see how much people love it. AI Overviews now have 2 billion users every month. The Gemini…
An operating system (OS) is the fundamental software that acts as an intermediary between computer hardware and user applications. It manages hardware resources such as the CPU, memory, storage, and input/output devices, while providing essential services like process scheduling, file management, security, and user interfaces. Without an OS, users would need to interact directly with…
For years, system design interviews meant "Design YouTube," "Design Uber," or "Design WhatsApp." Companies hiring AI Engineers, Applied Scientists, and GenAI Engineers now ask a different set of questions: "Design ChatGPT," "Design a customer support AI," "Design GitHub Copilot," "Design an AI code reviewer," "Design a legal document assistant."
Most engineers can call an…
import os, sys, io, json, time, math, re, subprocess, warnings
from collections import Counter, defaultdict
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
os.environ.setdefault("USE_TORCH", "1")
def _pip(*pkgs):
subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "-q", *pkgs], check=False)
try:
import doctr
except ImportError:
print(">> Installing python-doctr (this takes ~1-2 min on Colab)...")
_pip("python-doctr[viz]")
try:
import reportlab
except ImportError:
_pip("reportlab")
import numpy as np
import…
Google Antigravity To advance how the model and IDE work together, we’re introducing Google Antigravity to showcase what’s possible with Gemini 3. It’s an agentic development platform that enables developers to operate at a higher, task-oriented level by managing agents across workspaces, while retaining a familiar AI IDE experience at its core. It’s a faster…
In simple terms, retrieval-augmented fine-tuning, or RAFT, is an advanced AI technique in which retrieval-augmented generation is joined with fine-tuning to enhance generative responses from a large language model for specific applications in that particular domain. It allows the large language models to provide more accurate, contextually relevant, and robust results, especially for targeted sectors…