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 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 … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
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 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.
We reported on Google’s AI offensive under the “Gemini” banner, but soon after, it was the integrated image generator that made the headlines: It had apparently been steered too much in favor of diversity. What is generally a good idea makes no sense if, for example, you want a picture of the “founding fathers” of … Read more
Content marketing often focuses on topics that appeal to the widest possible audience. In this way, target audiences discover the company’s website and, for example, subscribe to a newsletter in the next step. The content is aimed at the beginning of the customer journey. However, these topics are often quite banal. As a result, it … Read more
Google has visibly accelerated AI development. At the same time, the company is unifying its activities under the “Gemini” brand. The ChatGPT competitor Google Bard is now called Google Gemini and the proprietary AI models are also called Gemini. Until now, Google’s chatbot used the “Gemini Pro” AI model, but now “Gemini Ultra” is also … Read more
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