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GigaAI (极佳视界) (Jijia Shijie)

GigaAI (极佳视界) is a Beijing startup in embodied AI and world models, founded in June 2023 by two Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers and known for the GigaBrain and GigaWorld platforms.

Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) is a family of Ethernet standards that carry frames at 1000 Mb/s over fiber and copper, defined by IEEE 802.3z (1998) and 802.3ab (1999).

Gigabyte

A gigabyte (GB) is a unit of digital information equal to one billion bytes, also widely used for 2^30 bytes, called a gibibyte since 1998.

Gigabyte Technology (技嘉科技)

Gigabyte Technology (技嘉科技) is a Taiwanese computer hardware company founded in 1986, known for motherboards and graphics cards and for its AORUS gaming brand and Giga Computing AI server business.

GigaChat

GigaChat (ГигаЧат) is a family of large language models developed by the Russian company Sber, first announced in April 2023 and focused on the Russian language.

Gigaclear

Gigaclear Limited is a British alternative network operator building full-fiber broadband in rural England since 2010, owned since April 2026 by a consortium of its lenders.

GigaDevice

GigaDevice (兆易创新) is a Beijing-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Zhu Yiming in 2005, second worldwide in SPI NOR flash and listed in Shanghai since 2016.

Gigafactory

A gigafactory is a very large plant producing lithium-ion battery cells, battery materials, or electric vehicles at gigawatt-hour scale, a term popularized by Tesla and now used industry-wide.

Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg is Tesla's automobile and battery factory in Grünheide, Brandenburg, southeast of Berlin. Opened in March 2022, it was Tesla's first European plant and builds the Model Y.

Gigafactory Nevada

Gigafactory Nevada, also known as Gigafactory 1, is Tesla's battery, powertrain, and energy-storage plant near Reno, Nevada, announced in 2014, mass-producing lithium-ion cells with Panasonic since 2017.

Gigafactory Texas

Gigafactory Texas, also called Giga Texas, is Tesla's vehicle and battery cell plant in Austin, Texas, opened in 2022, where it builds the Model Y and Cybertruck.

Gigafund

Gigafund is a venture capital firm in Austin, Texas, founded in 2017 by Luke Nosek and Stephen Oskoui, known for investing over $1 billion in SpaceX.

Gigan

Gigan (ガイガン, Gaigan) is a Toho kaiju cyborg debuting in Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972), designed by Takayoshi Mizuki, known for its abdominal buzzsaw, hooked claws, and visor, appearing in Final Wars (2004) as Modified Gigan.

Giganotosaurus

Giganotosaurus carolinii, giant carcharodontosaurid theropod from the Cenomanian Candeleros Formation, Patagonia; discovered 1993 by Rubén Carolini, described by Coria and Salgado 1995; about 12.5 m long, 6–8 tonnes, rivaling Tyrannosaurus rex.

Giganta

Giganta (Doris Zeul) is a DC Comics supervillain and Wonder Woman enemy who grows to giant size. Debuting in Wonder Woman #9 (1944) as a gorilla evolved by Professor Zool, she was reimagined by John Byrne and in animation.

GIGANTEA

GIGANTEA (GI) is a plant-specific nuclear protein and circadian clock gene, first found as a late-flowering Arabidopsis mutant; it links the clock to photoperiodic flowering via CO and FT and controls stress responses.

Giganten

Giganten is a 1999 Kosmos board game by Wilko Manz about the 1920s Texas oil boom: drill wells, ship crude by rail, and auction sales rights at refineries. Spiel des Jahres nominee; reworked as Black Gold (2011).

Gigantic (unproduced film)

Gigantic (originally Giants) was Walt Disney Animation Studios' unproduced Jack and the Beanstalk musical, announced at D23 Expo 2015, set in Spain with giant girl Inma, directed by Nathan Greno and Meg LeFauve, canceled October 10, 2017.

Gigantic NGHTMRE

Gigantic NGHTMRE is an American electronic-music supergroup formed by bass producer NGHTMRE and the live-electronica duo Big Gigantic, whose self-titled debut EP appeared in 2023 on Gud Vibrations.

Gigantis, the Fire Monster

Gigantis, the Fire Monster is the 1959 Warner Bros. American re-edit and English dub of Toho's 1955 Godzilla Raids Again, renaming Godzilla "Gigantis," changing his roar, and adding narration and stock footage.

Gigantism

Gigantism, or pituitary gigantism, is rare childhood overgrowth from excess growth hormone, usually a benign pituitary tumor; after puberty the same condition is acromegaly.

Gigantochloa

Gigantochloa Kurz ex Munro is a genus of about 71 accepted tropical Asian clumping bamboos (Poaceae), native from S. China to Malesia, with tube-fused stamen filaments, used for construction, crafts, and edible shoots.

Gigantopithecus

Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest ever primate, an extinct Pleistocene great ape of southern China known only from teeth and four mandibles; sister to orangutans; extinct 295,000-215,000 years ago.

Gigaom

Gigaom is a technology research company founded by journalist Om Malik as a pioneering tech blog, which shut down in 2015 and now produces analyst research.

Gigas Fossae

Gigas Fossae, a 190-km fossa (graben) system on Mars at 3.55N, 230.44E in Tharsis, IAU-named 1988 from an Antoniadi albedo feature; MFF deposits extend to it.

Gigas Sulci

Gigas Sulci is a region of subparallel furrows and ridges in western Tharsis on Mars, southeast of Olympus Mons and named by the IAU in 1976.

GigaSpeech

GigaSpeech is an English speech recognition corpus released by SpeechColab in 2021, with 10,000 hours of human-transcribed audiobook, podcast, and YouTube audio for supervised training.

GigE Vision

GigE Vision is a global standard for machine vision, defining how industrial cameras stream images and control data over Gigabit Ethernet networks with 100-meter cable reach.

Giggs (rapper)

Giggs (Nathaniel Thompson, also Hollowman) is a Peckham, South London rapper and SN1 founder, pioneer of UK road rap; debut Walk in da Park (2008), Landlord and Wamp 2 Dem both peaked at UK No. 2, known for Drake's KMT.

Gigi (1958 film)

Gigi (1958) is Vincente Minnelli's MGM musical, also called The Parisiennes, adapted from Colette's novella, starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jourdan; it won all nine of its Academy Awards and closed the Freed Unit era.