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🚀 Introducing MegaFlow: Zero-Shot Large Displacement Optical Flow! 🔥 Code, models, and demo — all available now! 🎯 Large displacement motion estimation (optical flow, point tracking) has been a long-standing challenge. MegaFlow proposes a simple solution by leveraging pre-trained vision priors. Combined with a global matching formulation, we tackle... show more

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Hao AI Lab

15,105 views • 1 year ago

Google presents AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen paper page: introduce AudioPaLM, a large language model for speech understanding and generation. AudioPaLM fuses text-based and speech-based language models, PaLM-2 [Anil et al., 2023] and AudioLM [Borsos et al., 2022], into a unified multimodal architecture that can process and generate text and speech with applications including speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation. AudioPaLM inherits the capability to preserve paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and intonation from AudioLM and the linguistic knowledge present only in text large language models such as PaLM-2. We demonstrate that initializing AudioPaLM with the weights of a text-only large language model improves speech processing, successfully leveraging the larger quantity of text training data used in pretraining to assist with the speech tasks. The resulting model significantly outperforms existing systems for speech translation tasks and has the ability to perform zero-shot speech-to-text translation for many languages for which input/target language combinations were not seen in training. AudioPaLM also demonstrates features of audio language models, such as transferring a voice across languages based on a short spoken prompt.

Google presents AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen paper page: introduce AudioPaLM, a large language model for speech understanding and generation. AudioPaLM fuses text-based and speech-based language models, PaLM-2 [Anil et al., 2023] and AudioLM [Borsos et al., 2022], into a unified multimodal architecture that can process and generate text and speech with applications including speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation. AudioPaLM inherits the capability to preserve paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and intonation from AudioLM and the linguistic knowledge present only in text large language models such as PaLM-2. We demonstrate that initializing AudioPaLM with the weights of a text-only large language model improves speech processing, successfully leveraging the larger quantity of text training data used in pretraining to assist with the speech tasks. The resulting model significantly outperforms existing systems for speech translation tasks and has the ability to perform zero-shot speech-to-text translation for many languages for which input/target language combinations were not seen in training. AudioPaLM also demonstrates features of audio language models, such as transferring a voice across languages based on a short spoken prompt.

AK

290,517 views • 3 years ago

🔥In Magma, we talked a lot about spatial/temporal intelligence beyond verbal intelligencen as advocated by Dr. Fei-Fei Li. So how to interpret it? Today I am happy to announce a new demo Magma-Gaming: 👉 Rather than asking LLMs to write game code, we further ask the model to PLAY the game. A simple game like moving to the target in a 2D grid still requires precise action grounding and planning capability, yet challenges the most advanced VLMs and even GPT-4o-mini model. Magma, born with stronger spatial understanding and reasoning ability, significantly outperforms the counterparts and achieves much higher scores in zero-shot manner. This result pinpoints the huge potential of building multimodal agentic models endowed with both verbal and spatial inteligence! Also, I believe this simple demo gives you a better hints to understand what is spatial intelligence, and why it is important!

🔥In Magma, we talked a lot about spatial/temporal intelligence beyond verbal intelligencen as advocated by Dr. Fei-Fei Li. So how to interpret it? Today I am happy to announce a new demo Magma-Gaming: 👉 Rather than asking LLMs to write game code, we further ask the model to PLAY the game. A simple game like moving to the target in a 2D grid still requires precise action grounding and planning capability, yet challenges the most advanced VLMs and even GPT-4o-mini model. Magma, born with stronger spatial understanding and reasoning ability, significantly outperforms the counterparts and achieves much higher scores in zero-shot manner. This result pinpoints the huge potential of building multimodal agentic models endowed with both verbal and spatial inteligence! Also, I believe this simple demo gives you a better hints to understand what is spatial intelligence, and why it is important!

Jianwei Yang

17,940 views • 1 year ago

Introducing FoundationMotion. A large-scale, video-derived motion annotation dataset & auto-labeling pipeline + advanced models for motion understanding. Fully open-source: code, datasets, and models, free to use and build on. Understanding motion is core to physical reasoning, yet today’s leading models still struggle with simple spatial actions like “turn right” or “move up” or “flip the toast” - mainly due to the lack of large, fine-grained motion datasets. We present FoundationMotion, a fully automated pipeline that: • detects & tracks objects in videos • extracts trajectories • uses LLMs + frames to generate rich motion captions & QA pairs → creating large-scale, high-quality motion datasets at scale. After fine-tuning the open-source models Qwen and NVILA on our annotations, these models now outperform the closed-source Gemini-3-Flash and GPT-5.1 on spatial understanding tasks across autonomous driving, robotics, and everyday scenarios. 📜Paper: 🌐Webpage: 💻 Code: 🕸️Model: 📊 Dataset: 👉 Interactive Demo: Let’s move research forward together. FoundationMotion is also referred to as Wolf V2 🐺, the second chapter in the Wolf series:

Introducing FoundationMotion. A large-scale, video-derived motion annotation dataset & auto-labeling pipeline + advanced models for motion understanding. Fully open-source: code, datasets, and models, free to use and build on. Understanding motion is core to physical reasoning, yet today’s leading models still struggle with simple spatial actions like “turn right” or “move up” or “flip the toast” - mainly due to the lack of large, fine-grained motion datasets. We present FoundationMotion, a fully automated pipeline that: • detects & tracks objects in videos • extracts trajectories • uses LLMs + frames to generate rich motion captions & QA pairs → creating large-scale, high-quality motion datasets at scale. After fine-tuning the open-source models Qwen and NVILA on our annotations, these models now outperform the closed-source Gemini-3-Flash and GPT-5.1 on spatial understanding tasks across autonomous driving, robotics, and everyday scenarios. 📜Paper: 🌐Webpage: 💻 Code: 🕸️Model: 📊 Dataset: 👉 Interactive Demo: Let’s move research forward together. FoundationMotion is also referred to as Wolf V2 🐺, the second chapter in the Wolf series:

Boyi Li

67,557 views • 8 months ago

Google approached me and asked if I would be down to collab with their research team to create a film for Google I/O. Not only would I have access to Flow, their latest AI filmmaking tool, but I would also be responsible for giving feedback on the product itself. The filmmaker in me was excited for the challenge, but the technologist in me was living out my dream in helping mold a next-generation product for a new era of filmmaking. Experimenting with the tool has been a fun ride. Flow is built on Google Deepmind’s most advanced models - Veo, Imagen, and Gemini, and has allowed me to world-build and create characters I have had in my head for years. I can create consistent characters, scenes, and stories with the ability to reference key ingredients. With Flow, it finally feels like filmmakers are in control. We can iterate freely and actually steer the ship in our creations. I decided to create my short film “Freelancers” using Flow: An action-packed ride following two estranged adopted brothers—one methodical, the other loud and brash—who reminisce on their careers as international hitmen during dinner, until they realize they’ve both been contracted to carry out the same job. GoogleLabs #EarlyAccess #FlowbyGoogle #Veo Try it out at

Google approached me and asked if I would be down to collab with their research team to create a film for Google I/O. Not only would I have access to Flow, their latest AI filmmaking tool, but I would also be responsible for giving feedback on the product itself. The filmmaker in me was excited for the challenge, but the technologist in me was living out my dream in helping mold a next-generation product for a new era of filmmaking. Experimenting with the tool has been a fun ride. Flow is built on Google Deepmind’s most advanced models - Veo, Imagen, and Gemini, and has allowed me to world-build and create characters I have had in my head for years. I can create consistent characters, scenes, and stories with the ability to reference key ingredients. With Flow, it finally feels like filmmakers are in control. We can iterate freely and actually steer the ship in our creations. I decided to create my short film “Freelancers” using Flow: An action-packed ride following two estranged adopted brothers—one methodical, the other loud and brash—who reminisce on their careers as international hitmen during dinner, until they realize they’ve both been contracted to carry out the same job. GoogleLabs #EarlyAccess #FlowbyGoogle #Veo Try it out at

Dave Clark

162,188 views • 1 year ago