record album cover for a band named "Google" --chaos 40 --ar 4:3 --style raw --personalize t1hfffm

Google AI News: Week Ending 06/28/2024

June 28, 2024

record album cover for a band named “Google” –chaos 40 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t1hfffm

Gemma

“Google just dropped Gemma 2 27B & 9B Both are showing interesting performances: – 27B beats Llama3 70B, Qwen2 72B and Command R+ in LMSYS Chatbot Arena – 9B beats Mistral 7B and Llama3 8B on various benchmarks Can’t wait to see the evals on the Open LLM Leaderboard with

Google just dropped Gemma 2 27B & 9B

Both are showing interesting performances:

– 27B beats Llama3 70B, Qwen2 72B and Command R+ in LMSYS Chatbot Arena
– 9B beats Mistral 7B and Llama3 8B on various benchmarks

Can't wait to see the evals on the Open LLM Leaderboard with… pic.twitter.com/4C3YsvMNYX
— Florent Daudens (@fdaudens) June 27, 2024

Google launches Gemma 2, its next generation of open models

https://blog.google/technology/developers/google-gemma-2

“We’re excited to unveil Gemma 2. 🛠️ Available in both 9B and 27B parameters, it delivers the best performance for its size – unlocking more possibilities for developers to build and deploy with AI. →

We're excited to unveil Gemma 2. 🛠️

Available in both 9B and 27B parameters, it delivers the best performance for its size – unlocking more possibilities for developers to build and deploy with AI. → https://t.co/RmRLEdFPMV pic.twitter.com/hE1tdSM3DB
— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) June 27, 2024

“Our benchmarks show: 🔘 9B delivers class-leading performance against other open models in its size category 🔘 27B outperforms some models more than twice its size… … and is optimized to run efficiently on a single TPU host.

Our benchmarks show:
🔘 9B delivers class-leading performance against other open models in its size category
🔘 27B outperforms some models more than twice its size…

… and is optimized to run efficiently on a single TPU host. https://t.co/RmRLEdFPMV pic.twitter.com/BtE3VdSxZC
— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) June 27, 2024

“When training Gemma 2, we followed robust internal safety processes. 🌐 This included filtering pre-training data and performing rigorous testing and evaluation against a comprehensive set of metrics to identify and mitigate potential biases and risks. →

When training Gemma 2, we followed robust internal safety processes. 🌐

This included filtering pre-training data and performing rigorous testing and evaluation against a comprehensive set of metrics to identify and mitigate potential biases and risks. → https://t.co/RmRLEdFPMV pic.twitter.com/dTYESWydwf
— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) June 27, 2024

Gemini

“Today, we’re opening up access to the 2 million token context window on Gemini 1.5 Pro for all developers. 🚀 To help reduce costs for tasks that use the same tokens across multiple prompts, context caching is now available in the Gemini API. →

Today, we’re opening up access to the 2 million token context window on Gemini 1.5 Pro for all developers. 🚀

To help reduce costs for tasks that use the same tokens across multiple prompts, context caching is now available in the Gemini API. → https://t.co/2chN4sM8gr pic.twitter.com/4CvcTxX00d
— Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) June 27, 2024

“That feeling when you wake to see Google casually dropped a 2 million token context window for all users 😎

That feeling when you wake to see Google casually dropped a 2 million token context window for all users 😎pic.twitter.com/z108Vp06uy
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) June 27, 2024

Other Google News

Google’s new AI project could let you chat with celebrities, YouTubers

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-ai-chat-youtube-celebrities-3454283

“Exclusive: Google is working on a product for custom chatbots, modeled on celebrities or made by users, that would compete with Meta and

Exclusive: Google is working on a product for custom chatbots, modeled on celebrities or made by users, that would compete with Meta and https://t.co/oOd0G4Iztw.https://t.co/cheEzAOmKo

From @julia_hornstein and @jon_victor_
— The Information (@theinformation) June 24, 2024

Google introduces new AI tools for Workspace for Education

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/workspace-gemini-classroom-iste-2024

Google testing facial recognition technology for security near Seattle

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/26/google-testing-facial-recognition-technology-for-security-near-seattle.html

Chrome Canary Features For Developers – Google Chrome

https://www.google.com/intl/en_au/chrome/canary

YouTube in talks with record labels over AI music deal

https://www.ft.com/content/e2d9472d-32e0-43f5-8109-efb753fac330

YouTube tries convincing record labels to license music for AI song generator | Ars Technicahttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/youtube-tries-convincing-record-labels-to-license-music-for-ai-song-generator/

Heads up! You’ve scrolled to the end of this category. There may have been just one or two links (above), so go back up and double check to be sure you didn’t quickly scroll down past it.

Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #39: Week Ending 06/28/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 67 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.