A week in Generative AI: Groq, Gemma & Reddit
News for the week ending 25th February 2024
Weâve had a slightly quieter AI news week this week than the rapid start to 2024 weâve seen so far. Google still managed to slip another announcement in, with Gemma, their new open source models. Thatâs a big AI announcement every week this year so far from Google!
Meet Groq, the AI Chip That Leaves Elon Muskâs Grok in the Dust
Itâs becoming clearer and clearer to me that a big part of AIâs future is specialised chips to run the models. Groq is the latest in a series of start ups trying to build this hardware and itâs going to be amazing to see whatâs possible if this approach is widely adopted over the coming years. Weâre not quite at the Terminatorâs Neural Net CPU yet thoughâŚ
Stability.ai announces Stable Diffusion 3
This is the latest image generation model from Stability.ai, designed to compete with new offerings from OpenAI and Google, as well as MidJourney v6. As part of their announcement, they highlighted a commitment to safety, with proactive measures to prevent misuse by bad actors. How effective these measures will be remain to be seen.
Google Introduces Gemma, new state-of-the-art open models
Gemma models are effectively the smaller, open source versions of Gemini. There are two versions and the larger 7bn parameter model performs on a par with the current open source leader Mistral 7bn. Itâs great to see Google also contributing to the open source community in a similar way to Meta.
OpenAIâs Sam Altman Revealed as One of Redditâs Biggest Shareholders
Love it or hate it, you canât deny Redditâs value to GenAI companies - they reportedly have over 1bn posts and 16 billion comments available for training AI models. Iâm sure the content doesnât represent the best of humanity, but itâs a huge volume of data and the reason behind the $60m deal Google has signed with them.
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âThe future is already here, itâs just not evenly distributed.â
William Gibson