Nvidia Announces Robotics-Oriented AI Foundation Model

At its recent GTC 2024 event, Nvidia announced a new foundational model to build intelligent humanoid robots. Dubbed GR00T, short for Generalist Robot 00 Technology, the model will understand natural language and be able to observe human actions and emulate human movements.

Airbnb Open-Sources its ML Feature Platform Chronon

Chronon, Airbnb platform to create the infrastructure required to transform raw data into ML-ready features, is now open source. As Airbnb ML infrastructure engineer Varant Zanoyan explains, Chronon supports a variety of data sources and aims to provide low-latency streaming.

Google Text Embedding Model Gecko Distills Large Language Models for Improved Performance

Gecko is a text embedding model that Google created by distilling knowledge from large language models into a general-purpose model. Gecko is trained using a novel approach on a variety of tasks including document retrieval, semantic similarity, and classification, and aims to be as general-purpose as it goes as well as highly performant.

Google Launches Gemini 1.5 Flash for Lower-Latency and More Efficient AI Serving

Part of the Gemini family of AI models, Gemini Flash is a lighter-weight iteration that is designed to be faster and more efficient to use than Gemini Pro while offering the same “breakthrough” context window of one million tokens.

Google Brings Gemini Nano to Chrome to Enable On-Device Generative AI

At its Google I/O 2024 developer conference, Google announced it is working to make support for on-device large language models a reality by bringing the smallest of its Gemini models, Gemini Nano, to Chrome.