From ExtremeTech: Google has shifted gears after being caught flat-footed by OpenAI and Microsoft. The search giant has integrated its Gemini AI into numerous products, but that's not the only Google AI. The company also offers a collection of open-source models, and it's adding some new options today. Google says its latest Gemma models are more efficient and safer, and developers can begin tinkering with them now.
Gemini is Google's flagship AI, which you can find as a standalone chatbot on virtually every platform. It also powers AI features in products like Gmail, Google Drive, and more. Google doesn't publish the source code for Gemini, but the company has a history of contributing openly to AI research. It published the first work on the transformer algorithms that underlie all current large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT and Meta's Llama.
The open Gemma models provide tools for developers who want to take a peek at source code, and the latest models offer a bevy of interesting features for them. Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma, and Gemma Scope have different intended applications.
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