Посты без AI-штампов — каждый день, без тебя

Конверсия в клик достигает 1%.

Рекламодателям стал доступен новый рекламный формат — карусели в VK Клипах. Он позволяет создавать многослайдовые объявления, которые пользователь может пролистывать прямо внутри ленты клипов, не покидая привычный интерфейс.

Карусель нативно вписывается в общую ленту VK Клипов и даёт рекламодателю возможность в рамках одного размещения показать несколько товаров, экранов приложения или офферов. По результатам внутренних тестов конверсия в клик такого формата достигает 1%.

Формат подойдёт тем, кто хочет продвигать товары электронной коммерции, мобильные приложения, сайты и мини-приложения.

The conversational query tool is currently available to Premium subscribers and offers more interactive results for user queries.

Google is looking to expand its artificial intelligence mode for Google Search to YouTube, with a new test of more detailed AI responses to search queries in the app.

YouTube's Ask YouTube button, which is currently being tested with YouTube Premium subscribers in the U.S., enables users to enter more conversational queries. It will then provide expanded responses based on contextual understanding.

As explained by YouTube: "For example, you can ask for help planning a 3-day road trip from San Francisco to Santa Barbara, and you'll get a structured, step-by-step itinerary instead of a list of videos."

YouTube said that responses to these queries will include a mix of long-form videos, Shorts, and informative text, including local tips and must-see stops.

Users will also be able to follow-up with queries like "good coffee shops nearby," and Ask YouTube will provide answers based on the context of its previous responses.

These expanded AI searches within YouTube are already available in Google's AI Mode via its main search tool.

AI Mode is not the same as Google's Search previews, which now appear in most search results, and aim to help users find exactly what they're looking for based on direct queries.

AI Mode is a more interactive, guided search option, which is designed to better understand the specifics of a user's request, and share expanded responses that can cover multiple elements.

This is the next stage of search, which includes contextual discovery that's based on what the system understands about each user, and which provides more tailored, personalized overviews of the most relevant responses.

Both AI Mode and Ask YouTube are initial moves towards this, which will eventually also integrate more agentic elements that can, for example, make inquiries to travel providers on behalf of users, and even book tickets, in alignment with each user's preferences.

The future of AI is automation in all elements, though that also comes with a level of risk, and will take some time to develop.

As such, these types of tools are the stepping stones that will get to that next stage.

YouTube's Ask YouTube search option is currently only early testing, and is available to YouTube Premium members in the U.S. who opt-in to YouTube's experimental features.

Sber has released Kandinsky 6.0 Image Pro, a major update to its image generation and editing capabilities.

The main highlight is editing mode. In side-by-side comparison tests (https://habr.com/ru/companies/sberbank/articles/1028822/), the model is benchmarked against Flux 2 Max and GPT Image 1.5. The evaluation focuses on specific aspects: how edits integrate into the scene, whether style, geometry, face, background, and local consistency are preserved. These are the exact areas where image editing models typically fail.

Performance has improved significantly: over 40% speed increase compared to the previous version, achieved through MoE (Mixture of Experts), inference parallelization, and attention optimization.

The most interesting addition is Image RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). The model retrieves relevant images from context and makes more accurate predictions for specific details that conventional generation often struggles with—turning vague prompts into something roughly correct rather than precisely on-target.

Key use cases include: object and text removal, item replacement while preserving style, stylization with face preservation, archive photo restoration, interior design from floor plans, and facade designs from single prompts.

Announcement: https://habr.com/ru/companies/sberbank/articles/1028822/

Компания признала три проблемы с начала весны которые влияли на качество кода. Первая была не очевидным изменением дефолтной reasoning effort с high на medium, что длилось больше месяца. Второй баг удалял из истории сессий размышления модели после каждого сообщения для сессий которые простаивали больше часа, что убивало качество; пофиксили за две недели. Третья проблема была в системном промпте — модель просто попросили генерить меньше токенов, из-за чего упала производительность.

Вместе с выходом постмортема всем пользователям Claude Code ресетнули лимиты. Anthropic пообещали чаще использовать публичные версии Claude Code внутри компании и тестить все изменения системного промпта перед развёртыванием.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem

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