Google has announced a bunch of new lightweight AI models that are open source.

This is super exciting.

It's something that I've been saying they should do for quite a while.

So today on the podcast, we're going to be diving into their new Gemma models.

They have two of them that they've recently announced.

And where I think this is going in the future, there's a lot

that is going on in this open source space. And I think that it is important. There's a bunch of

things that I think people are definitely not paying attention to. Before we get into that,

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everything you do with AI tools. Now let's get into the podcast. So Google right now has

unveiled a new set of AI models, right? So they have, they're both called Gemma,

but they have Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B. There's the two versions. This is kind of classic

what we see with these open source models where there's, you know, a larger and a smaller

one. So this is all just a couple of weeks after the launch of their latest Gemini models.

And these new models are described as kind of lightweight or open weight models that get a lot of their inspiration from Gemini, but they're available for both commercial and research purposes, which I think is really cool and I think important, you know, if these things are going to be viable, that they are available to be used commercially.

This is, you know, something that I'm excited to put both of these models onto the AI box

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