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sf | @Waymo Foundational Models | Previously @GoogleMaps

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

The World Cup Final goes through La Masia.

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona_es]

La final del Mundial pasa por La Masia.

[Google Earth @googleearth]

Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. https://t.co/hQP0No142P

We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...

Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!

[Google @Google]

Project Genie is a @GoogleLabs experiment that lets you simulate dynamic worlds you can navigate in real time with Genie, our general-purpose world model.

Today, we’re connecting Project Genie to nearly 20 years of Street View data from Google Maps — so you can now build interactive spaces based on real-world locations.

Street View imagery in Project Genie is available now for places in the U.S., and will expand to more locales over time.

#GoogleIO

[Aleksander Holynski @holynski_]

My whole life, I've wanted to be an elephant riding a motorcycle through my hometown.

Now, it's finally possible.

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Woot! You can now simulate real world places by grounding Genie 3 experiences with Street View imagery.

Google sitting on the mother lode of real world data, and is starting to put it to work!

Let's dive into some prompts & locations I tested...

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Cool use case of AlphaFold, this is just the beginning of digital biology!

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Genie 3 🤝 @Waymo

The Waymo World Model generates photorealistic, interactive environments to train autonomous vehicles.

This helps the cars navigate rare, unpredictable events before encountering them in reality. 🧵

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

The @Kaggle Game Arena has added our results for Werewolf, Poker and Chess.♟️✨

These challenges test the skills AI models need for the real world – like contextual communication, building consensus, and navigating ambiguity.

Find out how Gemini did → https://t.co/DpN3C1RWCf

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

san francisco cops take photos of graffiti violations. i scraped 100,000 citations from their website. art, but through the eyes of the law https://t.co/lc8aZN02QQ

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

Google Trends has reimagined the Trends Explore page. With Gemini capabilities, it’s now even easier to take a closer look at trending searches to find insights and dive deeper into a topic.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Indeed, basic research funding is important and beneficial. My colleagues Urs Hözle and Partha Ranganathan recently did an interview-format-style discussion w/ Magdalena Balazinska about the importance of basic research and its influence on Google.

https://t.co/KD0s5EUWEd

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

my competitive advantage is that i'm having fun

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

To build safer AI, we need to understand how models "think". 🧠

Enter Gemma Scope 2, a new set of tools to interpret Gemma 3: our family of lightweight open models.

It can help researchers trace internal reasoning, debug complex behaviors and identify risks → https://t.co/W3UmLx2DlN

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Waymo's system, fueled by careful collection of a large volume of fully autonomous data, is the most advanced, large-scale application of embodied AI today. Very proud to see this level of engineering rigor tackling safe autonomous driving making the roads safer for everyone (and it has been nice to see various Google research collaborations with Waymo be a part of these advances!).

The insights here are foundational for how we design and safely scale all complex AI systems.

Read more at:
https://t.co/TFk9yv6rce

[Dmitri Dolgov @dmitri_dolgov]

Big day — we’re starting to rollout freeway driving for public riders in Phoenix, LA, and the Bay Area. We’re also connecting SF to San Jose, and adding curbside access to SJC Airport. A true testament to the generalizability of the @Waymo Driver. Excited to bring its proven safety record to freeways and unlock new opportunities for our riders! https://t.co/AJGs3euDa0

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Riding in a @Waymo autonomous vehicle is an amazing futuristic experience, straight out of science fiction. So excited to see the service coming to my hometown in London 🇬🇧! Can't wait for Londoners to try them out soon!

[Shane Legg @ShaneLegg]

A bit late to the party, I know, but finally being driven around in a Waymo with an AI at the wheel... has me grinning ear to ear. It's so cool!

[Waymo @Waymo]

We’ve made millions of miles of memories over the past 15+ years, but today is special. We’re returning to where the journey began, gradually opening our doors to our first public riders in Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto, and parts of Sunnyvale.