It still has value in some cases, but it's increasingly a harm rather than a help.

Could pure AI encoding reinvent compression and make traditional codecs obsolete? Monica Heck examines what the future might ...

On Wednesday, Jelani Nelson, a professor of theoretical computer science and chair of UC Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer science division, announced he was taking a leave of absence to ...

Huawei's HZU Algorithm Aims for 90:1 Compression in New OceanProtect Backup Systems ...

Spread the love“`html 1. Understanding GZIP Compression GZIP compression is a technique that dramatically reduces the size of files sent from your web server to a user’s browser. This compression is ...

Vienna startup Ora Computing raised €3.5M and proved a 70-billion-parameter large language model can be compressed for under ...

The real story behind 'Backrooms' and Issa Rae's 'Screen Time' is compression — the craft of concentrating audience attention into a window short enough to make something feel essential. Next week, ...

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 ...

We have seen the future of AI via Large Language Models. And it's smaller than you think. That much was clear in 2025, when we first saw China's DeepSeek — a slimmer, lighter LLM that required way ...

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 ...

The compression algorithm works by shrinking the data stored by large language models, with Google’s research finding that it can reduce memory usage by at least six times “with zero accuracy loss.” ...

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 ...