r/pcmasterrace • u/Bobert25467 • Mar 27 '26

News/Article Google's new AI algorithm might lower RAM prices

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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/google-says-new-turboquant-compression-can-lower-ai-memory-usage-without-sacrificing-quality/

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u/Bobert25467 Mar 27 '26

It's made by Google Research and they released it to the public.

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u/adantzman Mar 27 '26

I'm surprised Google didn't keep their research in-house for a competitive advantage. It's good they are putting their research out there to move everyone forward, just like their initial LLM research paper

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u/20WaysToEatASandwich i7 9700K | 1080Ti | 144Hz Mar 27 '26

That's how Google Research works, it's open source developments. Think about it, if they kept the invention of the Transformer in house, there would be no LLM industry at all.

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u/Psilocybin_Tea_Time Mar 27 '26

Transformers are privateley owned though. Hasboro owns them.

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u/DonutGa1axy Mar 27 '26

That's how Google Research works, it's open source developments. Think about it, if they kept the invention of the Transformer in Cybertron, there would be no LLM industry at all.

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u/cycloc Mar 27 '26

That's a happy thought

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u/adantzman Mar 27 '26

Yeah but if they kept it in-house, the LLM industry would only be Google, no competition. I'm surprised that Google for selfish reasons doesn't keep this knowledge to themselves at least until they secure a competitive advantage for themselves.

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u/timisanaLugoj Mar 27 '26

I think "open source" refers to the license over the patent, so Google agreed, beforehand, to release any results to the public in order to attract researchers. Of course, in this kinds of agreement, the "researchers" have very poor pay compared to actual employees.

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u/Hypnokratic Mar 31 '26

Google didn't invent LLMs, OpenAI did. Google invented Transformers, the preceding technology necessary for current LLMs. If Google didn't release the Transformers paper, it's likely we wouldn't have LLMs (or more likely, they would've taken longer to develop and be much behind compared to this timeline)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

Wait you're surprised? Google has been very consistent in this aspect