Last year, Nano Banana brought Gemini's intelligence to image generation and editing. Since then, it’s helped millions of people restore old photos, design from sketches and visualize ideas in ways that weren’t possible before. From the start we built Gemini to be natively multimodal from the ground up, and now we’re taking the next step.…
Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0. The platform consists of four components: the Genesis World physics engine, Nyx (a real-time path-traced renderer), Quadrants (a Python-to-GPU compiler), and a simulation interface. It is designed to accelerate robotics foundation model development through simulation-based evaluation.
Robotics model development has two bottlenecks: data and iteration speed. The field has…
# Introduction
Pandas is one of the most popular Python libraries for data analysis. It gives you simple tools for cleaning, reshaping, summarizing, and exploring structured data. One of the most useful features in pandas is GroupBy. It helps you answer questions that require grouping rows by one or more categories.
For example,…
If you’ve ever watched a motion capture system struggle with a person’s fingers, or seen a segmentation model fail to distinguish teeth from gums, you already understand why human-centric computer vision is hard. Humans are not just objects, they come with articulated structure, fine surface details, and enormous variation in pose, clothing, lighting, and ethnicity.…
Street View: ground your worlds in real places When creating imaginative worlds in Project Genie, you can now also base them on real places. Just tap the Maps pin to choose a place in the U.S. and optionally select a style for your world, like “Desert Sands” or “Stone Age.” Then, describe your character —…
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
from pathlib import Path
import re
def parse_trc(trc_path):
"""Parse a .trc file and return marker names, frame data, and metadata."""
with open(trc_path, 'r') as f:
lines = f.readlines()
meta_keys = lines[2].strip().split('\t')
meta_vals = lines[3].strip().split('\t')
…
TL;DR
Last week OpenAI announced ads in ChatGPT's free tier. Within hours, Claude launched a "No Ads, Ever" campaign. Twitter turned into a roast session. Tech influencers dunked. Users threatened to switch.
"ChatGPT sold out." "Claude is the good…
# Introduction
In a recent article on Machine Learning Mastery, we built a tool-calling agent that reached outward, that is pulling weather, news, currency rates, and time from public APIs. That article covered the synthesis half of the pattern nicely, but it left the more interesting half on the table: an agent that…
import random, numpy as np, torch, torch.nn as nn, torch.nn.functional as F
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Tuple, Dict, List
from torch.utils.data import Dataset, DataLoader
try:
from tqdm.auto import tqdm
except Exception:
def tqdm(x, **kwargs): return x
SEED = 7
random.seed(SEED); np.random.seed(SEED); torch.manual_seed(SEED)
if device.type == "cuda":
torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = True
@dataclass
class WorldConfig:
…