The AI inside your photo library, and why we moved it onto our own GPUs

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When you search your photo library for “dog in the snow” and the right picture comes up, something has already read that photo for you. No one tagged it. A machine learning model looked at the pixels, decided what was in the frame, and stored that understanding so you could find it later. We recently moved that work from CPUs onto our own GPUs (graphics processing units). This post explains what the AI actually does, and why the hardware underneath it matters.

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The AI inside your photo library, and why we moved it onto our own GPUs