… Google also changed the license for Gemma 4 to Apache 2.0, which is much more permissive than the custom Gemma license Google employed for previous releases. However, there are inherent limitations in the hardware most people have to run local AI models. …
… When conducting tests, CAISI frequently gains access to models with “reduced or removed safeguards,” which CAISI said allowed them to more “thoroughly evaluate national security-related capabilities and risks.” Through the evaluations, the government will also gain a better understanding of model c… …
… The initial models included two mobile-optimized options E2B and E4B along with a pair of models for more serious work 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense . That left a rather large unserved space in the middle, which is right where the new model falls. …
… Google does intend to release an Omni Pro model at some point, but there’s no timeline for that. If multimodality in Omni comes together, these models may eventually form the basis for future Gemini releases to simplify Google’s AI ecosystem. …
… While the team has needed to fine-tune generic AI models to prevent problems of “consistency and controllability,” Totoki added that these models can, in some cases, help enable “highly sophisticated and realistic outputs which were not feasible before due to production time constraints.” Even as A… …
… For “more sophisticated” questions, your device will contact cloud-based models, again co-developed by Apple and Google: a general-use model called AFM 3 Cloud, an image-generation model called ADM 3 Cloud, and an advanced model called AFM 3 Cloud Pro for “agentic tool use and complex reasoning.” T… …
… The EO’s goal, the NYT reported, was “for the government to identify any security vulnerabilities revealed by AI models and to patch problems in its systems to help protect banks, utilities, and other sensitive industries from cyberattacks.” Officially, Trump told reporters that he decided against … …
… We reached out to Google to ask if this wording is due to a change in Chrome’s on-device AI. “This doesn’t reflect a change to how we handle on-device AI for Chrome,” a Google spokesperson said. “The data that is passed to the model is processed solely on device.” According to Google, the team deci… …
… Unsurprisingly, recent frontier models showed a much stronger tendency to resist Russian propaganda than models from just a few years ago. Claude 3.5 Haiku—the highest-rated model released in 2024—received a mean rating of just 73.1 on the benchmark. …
… The newly independent entity is being rebranded as Fenris Creations, which will continue to operate as normal without any restructuring or layoffs, the company said. “Something that already behaves like a living world” In today’s announcement, Fenris and DeepMind said that EVE Online presents “a un… …
