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AI Models

Google Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Cyber Model

Google DeepMind has introduced three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. The 3.6 Flash model offers improved coding and multimodal performance with 17% fewer output tokens and lower cost. The 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest in its series at 350 output tokens per second, designed for high-throughput agentic tasks. The 3.5 Flash Cyber, fine-tuned for cybersecurity, will be available exclusively to governments and trusted partners via the CodeMender agent.

Jul 216 minNeura News
Research

Google DeepMind: Video Generators Hold Key to Computer Vision

Researchers at Google DeepMind have developed GenCeption, a model that repurposes a pre-trained video generator for classic computer vision tasks like depth estimation and segmentation. The system builds on an open-source video model from Alibaba and delivers results in a single forward pass, guided by text prompts. It trained on just a small set of synthetic videos and needs far less data than competing approaches. In benchmarks, GenCeption matches established specialized models and transfers its abilities to real-world footage and untrained categories like animals. The authors say this supports the contested idea that video generators can serve as the basis for universal world models in computer vision.

Jul 195 minNeura News
Research

Google Deepmind AI Solves Decades-Old Math Problems Cheaply

Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus framework autonomously solved nine of 353 open Erdős problems, including two unanswered for 56 years, at an inference cost of a few hundred dollars each. The system uses Gemini 3.1 Pro to generate proof steps in Lean's formal language, with compiler feedback grounding the language model's reasoning. It also tackled 44 OEIS conjectures and settled a 15-year-old algebraic geometry question.

May 254 minNeura News
AI Models

Hassabis sees AI singularity soon; LeCun says LLMs not intelligent

At Google I/O 2026, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis declared humanity is entering the singularity, predicting AGI within five years. Yann LeCun of AMI Labs countered that current language models lack true intelligence, which he defines as solving new problems without prior training. Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals offered a middle ground, acknowledging models are strong in code and math but still missing experiential learning.

May 243 minNeura News
Funding

Antioch Raises $8.5M Seed for Robot Simulation Tools

Antioch, a New York startup developing simulation tools for robot developers, announced an $8.5 million seed funding round at a $60 million valuation. The company aims to narrow the sim-to-real gap, allowing robots trained in virtual environments to perform reliably in physical settings. Backed by investors like A* and Category Ventures, Antioch draws from founders' experience at firms such as Google DeepMind and Chainalysis.

Apr 164 minNeura News