We compress not to shrink data, but to make it cheaper for AI to “think”.

As helpful as they are for soreness and fatigue, compression socks get a bad rap. They’re usually associated with the unattractive, stuffy garments you are prescribed medically or pick up at a ...

Google’s TurboQuant is making waves in the AI hardware sector by addressing long-standing challenges in memory usage and processing efficiency. Developed with components like the Quantized ...

Intel and Nvidia showed off their respective AI-powered texture-compression technologies over the weekend, demonstrating impressive reductions in VRAM use while maintaining texture quality, or even ...

Memory prices are falling, and stock prices of memory companies took a hit, following news from Google Research of a breakthrough that will greatly reduce the amount of memory needed for AI processing ...

Google has unveiled TurboQuant, a new AI compression algorithm that can reduce the RAM requirements for large language models by 6x. By optimizing how AI stores data through a method called ...

The big picture: Google has developed three AI compression algorithms – TurboQuant, PolarQuant, and Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss – designed to significantly reduce the memory footprint of large ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. On March 24, 2026 Amir Zandieh and Vahab Mirrokni from Google Research published an article ...

Running a 70-billion-parameter large language model for 512 concurrent users can consume 512 GB of cache memory alone, nearly four times the memory needed for the model weights themselves. Google on ...

Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent ...

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...