From TechCrunch: Google has released a trio of new, “open” generative AI models that it’s calling “safer,” “smaller” and “more transparent” than most — a bold claim, to be sure.
They’re additions to Google’s Gemma 2 family of generative models, which debuted back in May. The new models, Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma and Gemma Scope, are designed for slightly different applications and use cases, but share in common a safety bent.
Google’s Gemma series of models are different from its Gemini models in that Google doesn’t make the source code available for Gemini, which is used by Google’s own products as well as being available to developers. Rather, Gemma is Google’s effort to foster goodwill within the developer community, much like Meta is attempting to do with Llama.
Gemma 2 2B is a lightweight model for generating analyzing text that can run on a range of hardware, including laptops and edge devices. It’s licensed for certain research and commercial applications and can be downloaded from sources such as Google’s Vertex AI model library, the data science platform Kaggle and Google’s AI Studio toolkit.
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