Google Lens is now capable of recognizing a billion items

Google’s AI-based tool has grown exponentially over the past year. From around 250,000 items it could recognize when it launched on Photos and Assistant, it can now recognize over a billion items. Its optical character recognition engine has been further developed to read more product labels, which in turn allows it to recognize more goods. It’s also gotten more data from smartphone photos. This new number comes from the products that are available through Google Shopping so don’t expect it to know obscure items just yet. It also has been developed to recognize people, geometric shapes, and Wi-Fi network names.

Source: The Verge