Working together with YouTube

Helping enrich people's lives with our research, we've partnered with businesses across Alphabet to apply our technology towards improving the products and services used by billions of people every day. One of our key partners is YouTube, who are on a mission to give everyone a voice and show them the world. Working together with YouTube's product and engineering teams, we've helped optimise the decision-making processes that increase safety, decrease latency, and enhance the viewer, creator, and advertiser experience for all. With video surging during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the total amount of internet traffic expected to grow in the future, video compression is an increasingly important problem. Working together with YouTube, we explored the potential for our AI model, MuZero, to improve the VP9 codec, a coding format that helps compress and transmit video over the internet.