In the Gemini app and on the website, Nano Banana 2 will be the image generator for the Fast, Thinking, and Pro settings.

They call it a “world model”, an essential tool to help AI systems make sense of the complex, unpredictable physical spaces into which many will eventually be put to work. The company argues that a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D, introducing enhanced object recognition and ...

Abstract: Estimating the poses of new objects is a challenging problem. Although many methods have been developed for instance-level object pose estimation, they often struggle when faced with ...

Model making is a great hobby, but knowing how and where to start is another story. It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, ...

A common misconception in automated software testing is that the document object model (DOM) is still the best way to interact with a web application. But this is less helpful when most front ends are ...

ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance industry, has announced the launch of the Next-Generation Digital Standards (NGDS) Object Model, designed to streamline digital data exchange ...

While large language models (LLMs) have mastered text (and other modalities to some extent), they lack the physical "common sense" to operate in dynamic, real-world environments. This has limited the ...

Meta unveiled a new AI model called V-JEPA 2 that it says can better understand the physical world. V-JEPA 2 is designed to understand movements of objects to enhance the technology of machines such ...