17 Things to know for Android developers at Google I/O
…the third beta of our Android 17 quarterly platform release (QPR1) just came out, and it contains a minor SDK release to support a few features that just couldn't wait for…
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Gemma is a family of open-weight language models released by Google for text generation and related NLP tasks.
…the third beta of our Android 17 quarterly platform release (QPR1) just came out, and it contains a minor SDK release to support a few features that just couldn't wait for…
…Built on the Gemma‑3‑4B backbone with an adapter‑based classification head, it delivers high‑accuracy safety classification at low latency that’s ideal for production agentic pipelines. It fuses visual…
…originate, as most of the serious releases this year have come out of Chinese labs. Aside from OpenAI's gpt-oss models and Google's Gemma 4 models, there hasn't really…
…with caution.) “I’m a lawyer, and I had an important order due to be released sometime on a Friday afternoon — I figured there must be a way to automate checking…
Blog post: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/ MTP draft models: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it-assistant https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-…
Gemma is a family of open models built by Google DeepMind. Gemma 4 models are multimodal, handling text and image input (with audio supported on E2B, E4B, and 12B) and generating text output. This release includes open-w…
My personal test for small local LLM intelligence is to check whether a model has any ability to understand the code that I write for my own academic research. My research is on some pretty niche topics and I doubt that …
Hi all, I have been making a lot of updates to my project, and I wanted to share them here. TextGen (previously text-generation-webui, also known as my username oobabooga or ooba) has been in development since December 2…
Cooper Hood May 27, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Cooper Hood is the Associate Editor for all new movie releases, in theaters and on streaming. In addition to writing articles about these…
…While this often leads to gold, it has led to some absolute stinkers thankfully canceled before release. While many lament canceled superhero movies like Batgirl or Spider-Man 4 , not every abandoned…
…This is where the platform truly shines for day-to-day local assistant use, running models like Llama 3.1 (8B) or Gemma 2 (9B) using standard 4-bit or 5-bit…
…The recent NeMo container release is a self-contained toolkit coming with all the required dependencies for applying PTQ and deploying quantized LLMs. NeMo and TensorRT Model Optimizer offer a broad range…
Cooper Hood Jun 3, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Cooper Hood is the Associate Editor for all new movie releases, in theaters and on streaming. In addition to writing articles about these…
…The game released for PlayStation 5 , Windows and Xbox Series X/S on February 28, 2025, and was the first game in the series to see simultaneous release on all launch platforms…