Google Labs
Google Labs is Google's internal unit for experimental generative-AI products.
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Google Labs is Google's internal unit for experimental generative-AI products. First launched in 2002, shut down in 2011 and relaunched in 2023, it incubates products such as NotebookLM, Flow (Veo-based AI filmmaking) and Whisk (AI image generation), graduating successful experiments into mainstream Google products like Gemini.
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