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GFlowNet
GFlowNet, or Generative Flow Network, is a family of generative models introduced in 2021 by Emmanuel Bengio and Yoshua Bengio that samples objects such as molecular graphs in proportion to a reward function.
Ghost fluid method
The ghost fluid method is a numerical technique for simulating flows with material interfaces, introduced by Ronald Fedkiw and colleagues in 1999 to avoid nonphysical oscillations.
GiST (PostgreSQL)
GiST (Generalized Search Tree) is a balanced tree-structured index access method in PostgreSQL on which indexing schemes like B-trees and R-trees can be built, introduced in a 1995 VLDB paper.
GLaDOS
GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is a fictional artificial intelligence and main antagonist of Valve's Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), voiced by Ellen McLain.
Glivenko–Cantelli theorem
The Glivenko–Cantelli theorem, or Glivenko–Cantelli lemma, states that the empirical distribution function converges uniformly to the true distribution function almost surely, proved by Valery Glivenko and Francesco Cantelli in 1933.
Global Entry
Global Entry is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection program, launched in 2008, that gives pre-approved, low-risk travelers expedited airport entry through dedicated kiosks; membership lasts five years.
Glowworm swarm optimization
Glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) is a swarm intelligence algorithm proposed by K. N. Krishnanand and Debasish Ghose in 2005 that locates multiple optima of a multimodal function simultaneously.
GLUE (benchmark)
GLUE, the General Language Understanding Evaluation benchmark, is a suite of nine NLP tasks and a leaderboard introduced in 2018 to test whether one model handles many language tasks.
Golden jackal optimization
Golden jackal optimization, or jackal optimization, is a swarm-based metaheuristic algorithm introduced in 2022 that mimics golden jackal hunting to solve continuous engineering optimization problems.
Golden record
Golden record: also master record or surviving record; the single authoritative MDM record for one business entity, built by entity matching, merging, and survivorship rules.
Golden-section search
Golden-section search is a derivative-free method for finding the minimum of a unimodal function on an interval, shrinking it by the golden ratio each iteration using only function evaluations.
GoodData
GoodData, rebranded GoodData.AI in April 2026, is a San Francisco company founded in 2007 by Roman Stanek offering a cloud platform for embedded business intelligence, dashboards, metrics, and AI-assisted analytics.
Google AI fellowships and research programs
Google AI fellowships and research programs are Google's named schemes funding academic AI research: the PhD Fellowship, DeepMind postdoctoral fellowships and scholarships, and the AI Residency.
Google Cloud Composer
Google Cloud Composer, now Managed Service for Apache Airflow, is Google's fully managed Apache Airflow orchestration service; Python DAGs, beta May 2018, GA July 2018, $0.06 per DCU-hour.
Google Cloud Data Fusion
Google Cloud Data Fusion (Cloud Data Fusion) is Google Cloud's fully managed, code-free ETL/ELT and streaming data integration service, built on the open source CDAP platform from Cask Data, announced in beta April 2019 and generally available December 3, 2019, running pipelines on ephemeral Dataproc Spark clusters.
Google Cloud Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully managed, serverless batch and streaming data processing service built on Apache Beam, generally available since 2015, with autoscaling, exactly-once processing, FlexRS discounts, and Dataflow Prime DCU billing.
Google Cloud Dataproc
Google Cloud Dataproc (now Managed Service for Apache Spark) is Google Cloud's managed service for Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, and Pig, launched in beta September 2015, GA February 2016, known for 90-second cluster startup and per-vCPU pricing.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Google Cloud Pub/Sub is Google's fully managed publish/subscribe messaging service (topics, subscriptions, at-least-once delivery, optional regional exactly-once delivery), launched GA in August 2015, with ~100 ms latency, 31-day retention, and no partitions.
Google Dataplex
Google Dataplex, renamed Knowledge Catalog on April 10, 2026, is Google Cloud's AI-powered data catalog and governance service, providing metadata harvesting, lineage, data quality, and agent context retrieval across BigQuery and other estates.
Google Datastream
Google Datastream is Google Cloud's serverless change data capture and replication service, launched in preview May 26, 2021 and GA December 1, 2021, streaming log-based changes from Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Spanner into BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Iceberg tables.
Google Dictionary
Google Dictionary is a dictionary service operated by Google in two forms: a dictionary box in Google Search results and a Chrome extension that defines selected words on any page.
Google Edge TPU
The Google Edge TPU is a small Google ASIC for machine learning inference on low-power devices, delivering 4 TOPS at 2 watts and powering the Coral product line.
Google Lens
Google Lens is a visual search technology by Google that identifies objects, text, and scenes in images and returns information and actions; it launched in 2017.
Google Neural Machine Translation
Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) is the deep-learning system Google announced in 2016 to replace phrase-based translation in Google Translate, cutting errors by about 60%.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar, at scholar.google.com, is a free Google search engine that indexes scholarly literature across disciplines and publishers, with citation tracking, author profiles, and an index estimated near 390 million records.
Google Translate
Google Translate is Google's machine translation service, launched in 2006, which translates text, documents, and websites between nearly 250 languages for more than a billion users.
Google Voice Search
Google Voice Search, also called Search by Voice, is a Google Search feature letting users speak queries instead of typing, first launched on iPhone in November 2008.
GoogLeNet
GoogLeNet is a 22-layer convolutional neural network introduced by Google in 2014, built around Inception modules and the winner of the ILSVRC 2014 classification and detection tasks.
Gossip protocol
A gossip protocol, also called an epidemic protocol, is a decentralized communication method in which nodes periodically exchange state with random peers, spreading updates like an epidemic.
Government AI fellowship schemes
Government AI fellowship schemes are state-funded awards paying AI researchers to train or work at universities and public institutions, such as the UK's Turing AI Fellowships.