Motivic interpretation of Albanese varieties of smooth varieties.
For any noetherian scheme $X$ smooth and separated over an algebraically closed field $k$, we describe the Albanese variety ${\rm Alb}\,X$ of $X$ in the world of ${{\rm DM}^{e\! f\! f}(k)}$. As an application, we explain the structure of the Picard functor ${\rm Pic}_{X/k}^0$.