Google has released new versions of its Gemma 3 AI models that can run on consumer-grade graphics cards through a technique called Quantization-Aware Training (QAT). This development makes powerful AI models accessible to users without high-end hardware. The company announced that QAT dramatically reduces memory requirements while maintaining high quality performance. Gemma 3’s largest 27B … Read more
Google has announced Gemma 3, its latest collection of open-source AI models built with the same technology that powers its Gemini 2.0 models. Gemma 3 is specifically designed to run efficiently on a single GPU or TPU, making it accessible for developers working with limited hardware resources. The new model family comes in four sizes: … Read more
Google is introducing two new AI models called DataGemma, which are designed to answer statistical questions more accurately. The models, based on the Gemma family, use data from Google’s Data Commons platform. As Shubham Sharma reports in an article for VentureBeat, the models use two different approaches: Retrieval Interleaved Generation (RIG) and Retrieval Augmented Generation … Read more
Google wants to improve the accuracy of its AI models. To avoid “hallucinations,” the company is working with partners such as Moody’s, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo who will feed the AI systems with up-to-date information. A new “confidence score” is also supposed to indicate how confident the AI is in its answer being correct. With … Read more
Nvidia’s ChatRTX chatbot now supports Google’s Gemma model, allowing users to interact with their own documents, photos, and YouTube videos. The update also includes voice search and offers more ways to search locally stored data using different AI models.
While Google’s Gemini offerings are proprietary, the company has now unveiled two open source models under the name Gemma that are free to use. Officials say they are based on the same techniques used for Gemini. With 2 billion and 7 billion parameters, the two Gemma models are small and have limited capabilities. However, they … Read more