Today we are excited to share updates across the board to our Gemini 2.5 model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro is generally available and stable (no changes from the 06-05 preview) Gemini 2.5 Flash is generally available and stable (no changes from the 05-20 preview, see pricing updates below) Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now available in…
Meta AI has introduced V-JEPA 2, a scalable open-source world model designed to learn from video at internet scale and enable robust visual understanding, future state prediction, and zero-shot planning. Building upon the joint-embedding predictive architecture (JEPA), V-JEPA 2 demonstrates how self-supervised learning from passive internet video, combined with minimal robot interaction data, can yield…
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Introduction
If you've ever watched Pandas struggle with a large CSV file or waited minutes for a groupby operation to complete, you know the frustration of single-threaded data processing in a multi-core world.
Polars changes the game. Built in Rust with automatic parallelization, it delivers performance improvements while…
Today, Eliza McNitt’s short film, “ANCESTRA,” premieres at the Tribeca Festival. It’s the story of a mother, and what happens when her child is born with a hole in its heart. Inspired by the dramatic events of McNitt's own birth, the film portrays a mother's love as a cosmic, life-saving force. This is the first…
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Recommender systems rely on data, but access to truly representative data has long been a challenge for researchers. Most academic datasets pale in comparison to the complexity and volume of user interactions in real-world environments, where data is typically locked away inside companies due to privacy concerns and commercial…
Despite the substantial progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation brought about by models such as DALL-E 3, Imagen 3, and Stable Diffusion 3, achieving consistent output quality — both in aesthetic and alignment terms — remains a persistent challenge. While large-scale pretraining provides general knowledge, it is insufficient to achieve high aesthetic quality and alignment. Supervised…
Following the exciting launches of Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT, our family of state-of-the-art open models capable of running on a single cloud or desktop accelerator, we're pushing our vision for accessible AI even further. Gemma 3 delivered powerful capabilities for developers, and we're now extending that vision to highly capable, real-time AI operating…
Bridging Perception and Action in Robotics
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hold promise for enabling machines, such as robotic arms and legged robots, to perceive their surroundings, interpret scenarios, and take meaningful actions. The integration of such intelligence into physical systems is advancing the field of robotics, pushing it toward autonomous machines that don’t just…
The Rise of AI in Creative Domains Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved far beyond number-crunching and automation. Today, it’s playing a transformative role in traditionally human-centric fields like music, writing, and visual art. Algorithms are composing melodies, generating stories, and producing visuals that rival those created by human hands. As this shift unfolds, it prompts…
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When it comes to error handling, the first thing we usually learn is how to use try-except blocks. But is that really enough as our codebase grows more complex? I believe not. Relying solely on try-except can lead to repetitive, cluttered, and hard-to-maintain code.
In this article, I’ll…