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In modern Silicon Valley, free food for employees is pretty much table stakes, but when Google started offering it more than two decades ago, it was a new and opulent perk. Now, the tech giant is doing something novel with the stuff employees don’t eat: it’s training AI. On Thursday, Google announced a partnership with Mill — maker of a $1000 “smart” trash bin — to use a dataset Google created from its own food waste, which it labeled and annotated years ago for computer vision research. Under the terms of the deal, Mill will also get early access to unreleased versions of Google’s flagship Gemini AI models, as well as a team of its AI engineers and researchers. Continue reading here: https://lnkd.in/e4TJv9xn (Photo: Courtesy Mill)