Last week we examined a 24-hour period of real-world AI API latency and error rates as an illustration of the…

The sheer massiveness of GCP's core service offerings is such that there are a wealth of hidden gems buried within…

GCP's Network Intelligence service offers an incredibly powerful Network Topology visualization that shows all of the various GCP services being…

Our massive new collaboration with the Internet Archive to OCR its complete quarter-century Television News Archive spans ten million broadcasts…

One of the great tradeoffs in using image montaging to achieve a 100-200x performance increase and cost reduction for at-scale…

Unlike most of the world, television news broadcasts in Taiwan make regular use of vertical onscreen text that appears alongside…

Below is a transcribed OCR excerpt from a circa-2018 South Sudanese broadcast. As with our previous examples, the difficulties of…

While all APIs can exhibit variable response times and error rates, AI APIs demonstrate uniquely complex response behaviors. The scarcity…

In contrast to yesterday's Congolese television news example, in which Cloud Vision API was unable to transcribe the onscreen chyron…

While our Cloud Vision montaging workflow has yielded highly robust results across the majority of broadcasts we've tested it on,…

Below is an OCR excerpt from a circa-2018 Nigerian news broadcast, with a fast-paced white textual "crawl" over a red…

How does our OCR workflow perform on a circa-2012 Venezuelan broadcast? Of interest, it even captures the "Reuters" byline of…

Continuing our OCR series, below is a circa-2012 Vietnamese broadcast. In keeping with the highly multilingual world of global broadcast…

Continuing yesterday's examination of OCRing an Amharic-language broadcast, towards the end of that broadcast is a fascinating example of a…

Continuing our OCR experiments applying GCP's Cloud Vision API to global television news broadcasts using montaging, below is an excerpt…

In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are working to OCR the Archive's entire 7-million-hour quarter-century archive…

We continue to explore the landscape of AI-powered autonomous agents. Despite their immense hype and ubiquitous mediagenic demos on social…

Yesterday we discussed how we massively optimized our archive-scale OCR throughput by splitting montaging and OCR workloads. When working at the…

As we continue to scale up our work OCR'ing a quarter century of global television news broadcasts, one of the…

Below is an example of our Cloud Vision montage pipeline's transcription of a Tunisian broadcast from 2014, showing how it…

Continuing our Cloud Vision television news OCR montaging experiments, below is a circa-2012 example from Turkish broadcaster TRT 1, showing…

Continuing our Cloud Vision television news OCR montaging experiments, below is a circa-2012 example of a Thai television news broadcast, showing…

Continuing our Cloud Vision television news OCR montaging experiments, below is a truly remarkable circa-2012 example from Syrian television. The…

Thus far, we've demonstrated the results of applying GCP Cloud Vision to OCR a grid montage of 1fps frames from…