Google Quietly Releases a Faster Model in Mythos’ Shadow
量子位 QbitAI3 days agoReleaseThe provided QbitAI title indicates that Google released a model quietly while attention was focused on Mythos. The only concrete performance claim available is that speed increased by 4x, but the model name, task scope, benchmark method, and availability are not provided. Based on the title alone, this appears to be a model-release item relevant to developers and AI practitioners tracking latency and throughput improvements.
DiffusionGemma: Google Launches High-Speed Open-Weight Gemma Diffusion Model★ 76
Simon Willison's Weblog4 days agoReleaseSimon Willison highlights Google’s new DiffusionGemma, an Apache 2 licensed open-weight Gemma model. He connects it to last year’s brief Gemini Diffusion preview, which he measured at 857 tokens per second. NVIDIA is currently hosting the model for free on its NIM cloud API, where Willison generated 2,409 tokens in 4.4 seconds, implying at least 500 tokens per second.
Google Requested a Slightly Different AI Statement
Simon Willison's Weblog10 days agoEthicsSimon Willison quotes Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Media about a post-publication request from Google. After the story ran, Google asked the outlet to publish a slightly different version of its statement. The notable change: the revised statement no longer said it was critical to maintain humans in the loop, raising questions about corporate AI accountability language.
The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true
Hacker News (AI keywords)10 days agoEthicsThe post frames Timnit Gebru’s dispute with Google as an early warning about large language model risks. Based on the available title, it appears to argue that concerns around bias, accountability, concentration of power, and deployment risks have since become visible in practice. This is best read as AI ethics commentary, not a model release or technical tutorial.
Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation★ 72
TechCrunch AI11 days agoRegulationUK regulators are requiring Google to provide a tool that lets website publishers opt out of generative AI Search features. The option will be tested in the UK first, then rolled out globally. The report does not specify the exact mechanism, timing, or whether opting out affects standard Google Search indexing.
Google 推出全新開源大語言模型 Gemma 2：9B 與 27B 雙版本，效能超越同級模型★ 85
Hugging Face Blog717 days agoReleaseGoogle has officially launched the next generation of its open-source large language model, Gemma 2, with an initial release in two sizes — 9B (9 billion…
Google 官方推出 CodeGemma：專為程式碼生成與補全設計的輕量級開源模型★ 80
Hugging Face Blog796 days agoReleaseGoogle and Hugging Face have jointly announced the launch of CodeGemma, a family of lightweight open-source large language models (LLMs) designed specifically…