Nvidia ChatRTX supports Google Gemma

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.

Google’s fireworks of new tools and features

As expected, Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference to demonstrate its strength in AI. Among other things, the company presented new AI models for a wide range of tasks. Some will run directly on Android devices or can be found in the Chrome browser. Others use Google’s specialized servers. They create text, …

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Google DeepMind Gecko evaluates image generators

Google DeepMind develops “Gecko”, a new standard to evaluate the capabilities of AI image generators. It is designed to help better understand the strengths and weaknesses of AI models and drive their development.

Research shows the usefulness of examples in prompts

Researchers at DeepMind have found that large language models can learn new skills through hundreds or even thousands of examples in the prompt, without the need to fine-tune the model. This method enables companies to quickly prototype and develop AI applications.

Google researches give AI “infinite” attention

With “Infini-attention”, Google researchers have developed a technology that allows language models to process texts of theoretically infinite length without requiring additional memory and computing power. Source: VentureBeat

Google unveils new Enterprise AI offerings

Google unveiled a series of updates to its enterprise AI offerings at its annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas. Despite recent troubles with consumer-facing tools, the company insisted the technology is safe and ready for enterprise use. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian demonstrated how its most powerful AI model, Gemini, can be used for …

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Grant program for developing generative AI technologies

Google.org launches a $20 million grant program for nonprofit organizations developing generative AI technologies. The six-month program includes financial support, technical training, workshops, and mentoring to help participants implement their AI projects, which range from translation services for refugees to optimizing social benefit applications.

These eight people made ChatGPT possible – at Google

This Wired article tells the story behind the development of the “Transformer,“ a revolutionary AI architecture that powers modern language models like ChatGPT. A team of eight Google researchers developed the Transformer in 2017, based on the concept of attention. The team worked hard to complete the paper before an important conference deadline, and their …

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Google VLOGGER animates people from a single photo

Google researchers show VLOGGER, which can create lifelike videos of people speaking, gesturing and moving from a single photo. This opens up a range of potential applications, but also raises concerns about forgery and misinformation. Source: VentureBeat

Google paying publishers to use AI tool

Google is paying publishers to use a new AI offering. According to Google, it is primarily intended to help journalists at smaller media outlets with their work, AdWeek reports.