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Google Research πŸ‘€ Kostas Kollias, Research Scientist, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-11-21

Reducing EV range anxiety: How a simple AI model predicts port availability

We developed a unique model to predict the probability with which an EV charging port will be available at a certain station within a certain amount of minutes from the current time, which helps …

Reducing EV range anxiety: How a simple AI model predicts port availability
Google Research πŸ‘€ Karolis Misiunas, Research Engineer, Google DeepMind, and Artsiom Ablavatski, Software Engineer, Google Core ML πŸ“… 2025-11-19

Real-time speech-to-speech translation

We introduce an innovative end-to-end speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) model that enables real-time translation in the original speaker’s voice with only a 2-second delay β€” bringing …

Real-time speech-to-speech translation
Google Research πŸ‘€ Yaniv Leviathan, Google Fellow, Dani Valevski, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Vishnu Natchu, Principal Engineer, and Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research πŸ“… 2025-11-18

Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt

We introduce a novel implementation of generative UI, enabling AI models to create immersive experiences and interactive tools and simulations, all generated completely on the fly for any …

Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt
Google Research πŸ‘€ Maxim Neumann, Research Engineer, Google DeepMind, and Charlotte Stanton, Senior Program Manager, Google Research on behalf of the broader research team πŸ“… 2025-11-13

Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains

Natural Forests of the World 2020 is an AI-powered map that distinguishes natural forests from other tree cover. This critical baseline helps governments, companies, and communities meet …

Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains
Google Research πŸ‘€ Stephen Jordan and Noah Shutty, Research Scientists, Google Quantum AI, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-11-13

A new quantum toolkit for optimization

New theoretical work from Google Quantum AI shows that large scale quantum computers could solve certain optimization problems that are intractable for conventional classical computers.

A new quantum toolkit for optimization
Google Research πŸ‘€ Borja Balle, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Ryan McKenna, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-11-12

Differentially private machine learning at scale with JAX-Privacy

We announce the release of JAX-Privacy 1.0, a library for differentially private machine learning on the high-performance computing library, JAX.

Differentially private machine learning at scale with JAX-Privacy
Google Research πŸ‘€ Ali Behrouz, Student Researcher, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-11-07

Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning

We introduce Nested Learning, a new approach to machine learning that views models as a set of smaller, nested optimization problems, each with its own internal workflow, in order to mitigate or …

Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning
Google Research πŸ‘€ Jinsung Yoon, Research Scientist, and Jaehyun Nam, Student Researcher, Google Cloud πŸ“… 2025-11-06

DS-STAR: A state-of-the-art versatile data science agent

DS-STAR is a state-of-the-art data science agent whose versatility is shown by its ability to automate a range of tasks β€” from statistical analysis to visualization and data wrangling β€” …

DS-STAR: A state-of-the-art versatile data science agent
Smashing Magazine πŸ‘€ Vitaly Friedman πŸ“… 2025-11-05

Six Key Components of UX Strategy

Let’s dive into the building blocks of UX strategy and see how it speaks the language of product and business strategy to create user value while achieving company goals. Part of the Measure UX …

Six Key Components of UX Strategy
Google Research πŸ‘€ Drew Purves, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Charlotte Stanton, Senior Program Manager, Google Research, on behalf of the ForestCast team πŸ“… 2025-11-05

Forecasting the future of forests with AI: From counting losses to predicting risk

We introduce the first deep learning–powered benchmark for proactive deforestation risk forecasting.

Forecasting the future of forests with AI: From counting losses to predicting risk
Google Research πŸ‘€ Travis Beals, Senior Director, Paradigms of Intelligence πŸ“… 2025-11-04

Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design

Project Suncatcher is a moonshot exploring a new frontier: equipping solar-powered satellite constellations with TPUs and free-space optical links to one day scale machine learning compute in …

Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design
Google Research πŸ‘€ Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research πŸ“… 2025-10-31

Accelerating the magic cycle of research breakthroughs and real-world applications

From earth science to genomics to quantum, we share the latest scientific breakthroughs from Google Research and how today’s powerful AI tools and platforms are accelerating innovation.

Accelerating the magic cycle of research breakthroughs and real-world applications
Google Research πŸ‘€ Artem Lagzdin, Software Engineer, and Daniel Ramage, Research Director, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-10-30

Toward provably private insights into AI use

We detail how confidential federated analytics technology is leveraged to understand on-device generative AI features, ensuring strong transparency in user data handling and analysis.

Toward provably private insights into AI use
Google Research πŸ‘€ Jon E. Froehlich, Visiting Faculty Researcher, and Shaun Kane, Research Scientist, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-10-29

StreetReaderAI: Towards making street view accessible via context-aware multimodal AI

We introduce StreetReaderAI, a new accessible street view prototype using context-aware, real-time AI and accessible navigation controls.

StreetReaderAI: Towards making street view accessible via context-aware multimodal AI
Google Research πŸ‘€ Shwetak Patel, Distinguished Scientist & Health Technologies Lead, and Florence Thng, Health Intelligence PM Director, Google πŸ“… 2025-10-27

How we are building the personal health coach

The personal health coach is built with Gemini models to deliver personalized and adaptive coaching, grounded in science and informed by expert oversight.

How we are building the personal health coach
Google Research πŸ‘€ Niv Efron, Senior Director of Engineering, and Luke Barrington, Director of Product Management, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-10-23

Google Earth AI: Unlocking geospatial insights with foundation models and cross-modal reasoning

Google Earth AI is our family of geospatial AI models and reasoning agents that provides users with actionable insights, grounded in real-world understanding. Today, we’re sharing our latest …

Google Earth AI: Unlocking geospatial insights with foundation models and cross-modal reasoning
Google Research πŸ‘€ Xiao Mi and Kostyantyn Kechedzhi, Research Scientists, Google Quantum AI πŸ“… 2025-10-22

A verifiable quantum advantage

In our latest Nature publication, we introduce a new quantum computational task measuring Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs). This work demonstrates a verifiable quantum advantage and paves …

A verifiable quantum advantage
Google Research πŸ‘€ Weiwei Kong, Software Engineer, and Umar Syed, Research Scientist, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-10-20

A picture’s worth a thousand (private) words: Hierarchical generation of coherent synthetic photo albums

We introduce a method for generating differentially private synthetic photo albums that uses an intermediate text representation and produces the albums in a hierarchical fashion.

A picture's worth a thousand (private) words: Hierarchical generation of coherent synthetic photo albums
Google Research πŸ‘€ Turan Bulmus, Head of GenAI Blackbelts and Solution Architects, Google Cloud, and Dr. Fiorenzo Stoppa, Royal Society Newton International Fellow, University of Oxford πŸ“… 2025-10-20

Teaching Gemini to spot exploding stars with just a few examples

In a publication in Nature Astronomy, we show how Google’s Gemini model can be transformed into an expert astronomy assistant that classifies cosmic events with high accuracy and explains its …

Teaching Gemini to spot exploding stars with just a few examples
Smashing Magazine πŸ‘€ Paul Boag πŸ“… 2025-10-17

AI In UX: Achieve More With Less

A simple but powerful mental model for working with AI: treat it like an enthusiastic intern with no real-world experience. Paul Boag shares lessons learned from real client projects across user …

AI In UX: Achieve More With Less