An amethyst geode is open with the Google logo inside. Gem photography. Brightly lit. Displayed in a museum case.

Gemma

“MLX keeps improving! Running models on MacBook now 2x faster with multi-threading. Here on my M3 and Gemma-2B. Impressive! 

Gemini

Google Gemini adds Imagen 3 and resumes generating image of people

“Over the coming days, start creating and chatting with Gems: customizable versions of Gemini that act as topic experts. 🤝 We’re also launching premade Gems for different scenarios – including Learning coach to break down complex topics and Coding partner to level up your skills 

“Chatbot Arena update⚡! The latest Gemini (Pro/Flash/Flash-9b) results are now live, with over 20K community votes! Highlights: – New Gemini-1.5-Flash (0827) makes a huge leap, climbing from #23 to #6 overall! – New Gemini-1.5-Pro (0827) shows strong gains in coding, math over 

“Google released Custom Gems for Gemini Advanced users Gems are customizable versions of Gemini, or in other words Google’s version of Custom GPTs, with similar features like Custom Instructions 

Google rolling out Gems and Imagen 3 to Gemini Advanced

“Today, we are rolling out three experimental models: – A new smaller variant, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B – A stronger Gemini 1.5 Pro model (better on coding & complex prompts) – A significantly improved Gemini 1.5 Flash model Try them on 

Google Gemini updates: Custom Gems and improved image generation with Imagen 3

“Google just released three new experimental Gemini 1.5 models: – A smaller 8B parameter Flash model – An updated Pro model – An improved Flash model The new 1.5 Pro now ranks as #2, and the new 1.5 Flash ranks as #6 on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard! 

“Gemini Dropped Yet Another 1.5 Fine-Tune. They Should Be Dropping Gemini 2.0 Yesterday, Gemini released one more experimental version of their best model. It moved the needle slightly, but not much. Gemini’s new model sits slightly below Llama-400B on Livebench AI. The sad 

Other Google News

“In conversations, a lot of companies seem to be getting benefit out of the ability for anyone to easily create shareable GPTs. Now Google is rolling out Gems, its GPT-equivalent. I find it surprising that Microsoft has gone the opposite way, making creating copilots quite hard.” / X

Google AI Overviews rollout ramps up, hitting publisher visibility

“Google researchers just developed GameNGen, an AI that can simulate DOOM at over 20 fps It works by predicting each frame in real time with a diffusion model At scale this could mean AI will be able to create games on the fly, personalized to each player 

“We just shipped a new native prompt gallery in Google AI Studio ✨ Test out long context, native multi-modal (image, video and audio), structured outputs, and more! 

Exclusive: Google DeepMind Staff Push to End Military Contracts | TIME

Google rolls out safeguards for more of its AI products ahead of the US presidential election | TechCrunch

Google and Others Are Developing AI That Can Hear Signs of Sickness – Bloomberg

Google appoints former Character.AI founder as co-lead of its AI models  | Reuters

“🐳 Big news! @huggingface and @googlecloud have joined forces to bring you a collection of Deep Learning Containers (DLCs) to transform the way you build AI with open models on Google Cloud! With pre-configured, optimized environments for PyTorch Training (GPU) and Inference https://x.com/alvarobartt/status/1828070053205434664

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