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The Next Breakthroughs in AI with Yossi Matias | The Google Research Podcast

The Next Breakthroughs in AI with Yossi Matias | The Google Research Podcast

Yossi Matias, VP and GM of Google Research, discusses how Google prototypes the future by inventing it, emphasizing the current "Golden Age of Research." Key themes include the seamless integration of AI through ambient intelligence and adaptive Generative UI, architectural advancements that push beyond scaling laws with techniques like Speculative Decoding, and multi-agent AI systems such as AI Co-Scientist and Empirical Research Assistance for accelerating scientific discovery. He also details Google Earth AI for crisis resilience and planetary intelligence, breakthroughs in healthcare diagnostics with MedGemma and the Google Health app, and milestones in quantum computing with the Willow chip, ultimately envisioning a future where AI amplifies human ingenuity and solves humanity's biggest challenges.

Turbocharge Your Agent's Retrieval with TurboQuant - Shashi Jagtap, Superagentic AI

Turbocharge Your Agent's Retrieval with TurboQuant - Shashi Jagtap, Superagentic AI

This talk introduces TurboQuant, a training-free compression method from Google Research that reduces embedding memory footprint by 5x (from 32-bit to 3-4 bits) without losing search quality. It details how TurboQuant works through scalar quantization and a crucial one-bit error correction step, QJL, enabling agents to remember more on existing hardware by optimizing both KV cache and RAG vector stores. A live demo showcases its effectiveness, making it a vendor-neutral solution for efficient AI agent retrieval.