Google is expanding its AI Mode in Search to support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, marking the first time the chatbot is available in languages other than English, with aims to enhance local relevance and understanding across more regions.
Google has expanded NotebookLM’s Video Overviews and Audio Overviews features to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese, making visual and audio summaries more accessible to a global audience. These updates allow users to learn from video and audio content in their preferred language, with options for detailed or brief summaries, and are now available worldwide.
Apple has published a detailed tech report on its new AI models, revealing innovations such as splitting the on-device model into two blocks to optimize performance and memory, and developing a custom Parallel-Track Transformer with Mixture of Experts for its cloud-based model to enhance speed and accuracy. The company also expanded multilingual capabilities significantly and sourced data from web crawling, licensed content, synthetic data, and extensive image-caption pairs, all while maintaining a privacy-conscious approach.