This isn’t really a “google project” in the way I think about that term, but it’s a research project. Google’s research is constantly advancing and when things

This isn’t really a “google project” in the way I think about that term, but it’s a research project. Google’s research is constantly advancing and when things get far enough along they do tend to get used in production. Individual research papers are just a step along the way. This research seems useful for training video generation systems like transformers and especially multi modal systems. Imagine you have a robot that needs to understand the world around it. It needs to interpret text input (likely as voice) but it also needs to understand complex scenes around it. If you can get a system to accurately describe YouTube videos (a captive data set) then it should also be able to understand a live video feed on a robot. That’s an important part of a robot. But it is not in itself a product or notable project.