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Google AI News: Week Ending 07/05/2024

July 5, 2024

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Gemma

“What’s noteworthy in the newly released Gemma 2 LLMs? The main theme is that they explore techniques w/o necessarily increasing the dataset sizes but rather focus on developing relatively small & efficient LLMs. The are 3 main design choices to create the 2B & 9B models:

What's noteworthy in the newly released Gemma 2 LLMs?
The main theme is that they explore techniques w/o necessarily increasing the dataset sizes but rather focus on developing relatively small & efficient LLMs.
The are 3 main design choices to create the 2B & 9B models: pic.twitter.com/OlYtElU0Fx
— Sebastian Raschka (@rasbt) July 1, 2024

“The @UnslothAI lib keeps delivering. Gemma 2 finetuning 2x faster 63% less memory, allow 3-5x longer contexts than HF+FA2. Amazing 🤯 And with unsloth you can eazily finetune Gemma-2 27B on a 24GB Consumer GPU. And in fact you can go up to a 34B model to be finetuned with an

The @UnslothAI lib keeps delivering. Gemma 2 finetuning 2x faster 63% less memory, allow 3-5x longer contexts than HF+FA2. Amazing 🤯

And with unsloth you can eazily finetune Gemma-2 27B on a 24GB Consumer GPU.

And in fact you can go up to a 34B model to be finetuned with an… pic.twitter.com/edLhrPYTyi
— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) July 4, 2024

Gemini

Apple could announce a Google Gemini deal this fall – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/30/24189262/apple-intelligence-google-gemini-deal-iphone-mac-ipad-openai-chatgpt

“This is fast. Chrome running Gemini locally on my laptop. 2 lines of code.

This is fast. Chrome running Gemini locally on my laptop. 2 lines of code. pic.twitter.com/R8twlDbUD2
— Morten Just (@mortenjust) June 24, 2024

Other Google News

“Google just announced its largest-ever expansion of Google Translate, adding support for 110 new languages enabled by the company’s PaLM 2 LLM model. The new languages represent over 614M speakers, covering about 8% of the global population.

Google just announced its largest-ever expansion of Google Translate, adding support for 110 new languages enabled by the company’s PaLM 2 LLM model.

The new languages represent over 614M speakers, covering about 8% of the global population. pic.twitter.com/nxYkOTsHTB
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) July 1, 2024

Google Translate adds 110 languages in its biggest expansion yet

https://blog.google/products/translate/google-translate-new-languages-2024

“According to a newly leaked report from @androidauth, Google is planning a new feature called ‘Pixel Screenshots’ for the Pixel 9. The AI tool will allow users to search and summarize manually captured screenshots, without being ‘always-on’ like the Copilot Plus’ Recall feature

According to a newly leaked report from @androidauth, Google is planning a new feature called ‘Pixel Screenshots’ for the Pixel 9.

The AI tool will allow users to search and summarize manually captured screenshots, without being ‘always-on’ like the Copilot Plus’ Recall feature pic.twitter.com/7xbRNNNfpW
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) July 3, 2024

Exclusive: New Google AI suite to debut with the Pixel 9 series

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-ai-recall-pixel-9-3456399

Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-falling-short-important-climate-target-cites-electricity-needs-rcna160042

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