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Google on Tuesday at its annual developer conference Google I/O 2024 announced a number of new feature additions to Gemma, a family of open (not open source) models comparable to Meta's Llama and Mistral open models. The high-profile release here is Gemma 2, the next generation of Google's open-weight Gemma model, a 27 billion parameter model launching in June. Already available, PaliGemma is a pre-trained Gemma variant that Google describes as “the first vision language model in the Gemma family” for image captioning, image labeling, and visual Q&A use cases. So far, the standard Gemma model launched earlier this year…
Google is adding more AI to search, allaying doubts that the company is losing market share to competitors like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Google said at the Google IO 2024 developer event on Tuesday that it is rolling out AI-powered Overview to users in the United States. The company is also considering using Gemini as an agent for things like travel planning. Liz Reid, head of search at Google, said the company has built a custom Gemini model for search that combines real-time information, Google rankings, long context, and multimodal features. AI overview Since last year, Google has been testing an…
Gemini, Google's family of generative AI models, can now analyze longer documents, codebases, videos, and audio recordings than ever before. In its keynote at the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced a private preview of a new version of its current flagship model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, which can capture up to 2 million tokens. This is double the previous high. The new version, Gemini 1.5 Pro, supports the largest inputs of any commercially available model at 2 million tokens. The next largest is Anthropic's Claude 3 with a maximum of 1 million tokens. In the AI field,…
Google Photos is bringing AI to life with the release of Ask Photos, an experimental feature that leverages Google's Gemini AI model. Launching later this summer, the new feature will allow users to search their entire Google Photos collection using natural language queries that leverage AI's understanding of a photo's content and other metadata. Before users could search for specific people, places, or things in photos, thanks to natural language processing, AI upgrades can eliminate manual search processes and make relevant content more intuitive. will be discoverable, Google announced Tuesday at its annual Google I. /O 2024 Developer Conference. For…
Online travel agency Expedia has announced that it will soon introduce an AI assistant that will power features such as search, itinerary creation, trip planning, and real-time updates on flight delays and more as part of its efforts to stay ahead of competitors in the travel ecosystem. . The company, which operates a variety of online travel aggregators and metasearch engines, is debuting a bot named Romie that is trained using a combination of in-house and OpenAI models. This bot helps users search for hotels, create travel itineraries, and make small changes. The bot can be included in iMessage chat…
Apple on Tuesday morning released new anti-fraud data related to its iOS App Store operations, blocking more than $7 billion in “potentially fraudulent transactions” over four years from 2020 to 2023. claimed to have done so. More than $1.8 billion of this was blocked in 2023, according to Apple, which is less than the $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions Apple reported blocking in 2022. It also announced that it has blocked more than 14 million stolen credit cards and more than 3.3 million stolen accounts. It is expected to be traded again between 2020 and 2023. Like other self-reported…
The person who claims to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have stolen even more data from another Dell portal, according to an investigation by TechCrunch. The newly compromised data includes names, phone numbers, and email addresses of Dell customers. This personal data is included in the customer's “service report,” which includes information about replacement hardware and parts, comments from on-site engineers, dispatch numbers, and, in some cases, diagnostics uploaded from the customer's computer. Also includes logs. Several reports seen by TechCrunch include photos that appear to have been taken by customers and uploaded…
Google I/O 2024 begins today with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT. As always, this presentation provides a glimpse into the latest versions of the company's software platforms, including Android, Wear OS, and Android TV. I have high hopes for AI as well. A lot, a lot. Gemini, originally known as Bard, will be taking center stage with CEO Sundar Pichai as it seeks to establish its dominance in a field marked by fierce competition from the likes of Microsoft and OpenAI. You can get a complete overview of what we expect here. A developer keynote will be held a…
Google I/O 2024 kicks off today at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, with one day left of developer season officially starting. The simple answer to the question of what to expect is AI. Google I/O? Similar to Google A/I. Almost every Google announcement in recent years has included an element of artificial intelligence/machine learning, but this time around, CEO Sundar Pichai will probably be sick of the topic by the time he leaves the stage. Things start today, May 14th at 10am Pacific Time. That's the big keynote, and that's what comes to mind when you think about the event.…
Harness Lab is not founder Jyoti Bansal's first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was scheduled to go public. In his latest venture, he raised $425 million, according to Crunchbase. On Tuesday, Harness announced $150 million in debt financing, essentially a line of credit that the company can draw on as needed. This could be the last private financial step toward an eventual IPO. It is worth noting that the company raised another $55 million debt financing round in 2022. Harness has built a fundamental toolset for software development teams, including CI/CD…