I replaced Google's core apps with open source alternatives, and I'm never going back

Compared to Google's Clock app, there is no weather app integration, no bedtime mode, and no screensaver. In return, you get ...

Google Project Genie Lets You Create and Explore AI-Generated 3D Worlds

Google has launched Project Genie, a web-based prototype that allows users to generate and explore AI-created 3D environments ...

Google expands access to Project Genie, its AI tool that turns photos and text into explorable worlds

Under the hood, Project Genie evolves from Genie 3, a world model first demonstrated by Google DeepMind last year. Unlike fully 3D game engines, world models ...
CNET

NotebookLM Review: Bring Your Own Sources to This Ultrapractical Google AI Tool

Of the countless AI tools available today, NotebookLM remains virtually one of a kind. As a Google app that uses AI to help you work with your own source material -- and only the stuff you provide it ...
New Atlas

Google AI lets you explore any virtual world you can dream up instantly

Google's just begun opening up access to an AI model I can actually get behind. This one lets you generate a virtual world of ...

Google’s Genie AI will let you create a whole visual world of your imaginations

Project Genie uses AI to generate explorable environments from prompts. Initially available to U.S. Google AI Ultra subscribers, it blends Genie 3, Gemini, and Nano Banana Pro.
IEEE

Temporal Modeling With Frozen Vision–Language Foundation Models for Parameter-Efficient Text–Video Retrieval

Abstract: Temporal modeling plays an important role in the effective adaption of the powerful pretrained text–image foundation model into text–video retrieval. However, existing methods often rely on ...
GitHub

Android OCR Text Recognition Scanner – Optical Character Recognition for Android (ML Kit, Tesseract, Cloud Vision)

Whether you want to build a document scanner, digitize receipts, or add text recognition to your mobile app, this project is a perfect starting point. This project is provided for educational and ...
IEEE

Diffusion Bridge: Leveraging Diffusion Model to Reduce the Modality Gap Between Text and Vision for Zero-Shot Image Captioning

Abstract: The modality gap between vision and text embeddings in CLIP presents a significant challenge for zero-shot image captioning, limiting effective cross-modal representation. Traditional ...