Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, Google launched two new open large language models, Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, in its continued bid for generative AI dominance. The company, which describes the LLMs as “inspired by Gemini,” its flagship family of GenAI … Read more
Barely a week after launching the latest iteration of its Gemini models, Google today announced the launch of Gemma, a new family of lightweight open-weight models. Starting with Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, these new models were “inspired by Gemini” and are available for commercial and research usage. Google did not provide us with a … Read more
AI is all the rage — particularly text-generating AI, also known as large language models (think models along the lines of ChatGPT). In one recent survey of ~1,000 enterprise organizations, 67.2% say that they see adopting large language models (LLMs) as a top priority by early 2024. But barriers stand in the way. According to … Read more
Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was all about building models to solve for a single task like loan approvals or fraud protection? That approach seemed to go out the window with the rise of generalized LLMs, but the fact is generalized … Read more
Ignatiev/Getty Images The digitization of health care has been a long time coming, with the practice of healing tied, for obvious reasons, to older, carefully vetted ways of doing things. But increasingly, artificial intelligence in various forms is creeping into the clinic. Applications include in predictive analytics, smart prostheses, mobile diagnostics, and brain implants. Plus, … Read more
AI might have discovered a middle of gravity within the Bay Space, however we’re seeing lots of exercise elsewhere amongst those that consider that there’s a market alternative making certain that the tempo of innovation doesn’t solely get performed out in only one nook of the world. At present, SoftBank put in a bid for … Read more
Photograph by OLIVIER MORIN/Getty Pictures You might be impressed with artificially clever giant language fashions (LLMs) like ChatGPT that may write code, create an app, and go the bar examination. However LLMs nonetheless lack synthetic normal intelligence, the state of a hypothetical autonomous system that may obtain mental duties people or animals carry out. Additionally: What’s … Read more