Researchers led by Takaki Hatsui at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center (RSC) in Japan and collaborators have developed a new approach ...

Quantum computing is advancing faster than expected, forcing Bitcoin and the broader crypto industry to prepare for a post-quantum future.

Google engineers have developed a method to compress artificial intelligence (AI) data so that it requires up to six times less working memory to function. With the new system, called TurboQuant, AI ...

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TurboQuant is a compression algorithm introduced by Google Research (Zandieh et al.) at ICLR 2026 that solves the primary memory bottleneck in large language model inference: the key-value (KV) cache.

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 ...

Several memory chip stocks on Wall Street declined on Wednesday after Google announced a new compression algorithm designed to reduce the amount of memory needed to run large language models and ...

Google has unveiled a new AI memory compression technology called TurboQuant, and the announcement has already had a measurable impact on the semiconductor market. The technology is designed to reduce ...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...

AI has a growing memory problem. Google thinks it's found the answer, and it doesn't require more or better hardware. Originally detailed in an April 2025 paper, TurboQuant is an advanced compression ...

Even as AI progress is surprising one and all, companies are coming up with ever more improvements which could accelerate things even further. Google has announced TurboQuant, a new compression ...