Yesterday, Wednesday, Google released a new open source model for artificial intelligence called Gima that external developers can design as their own models, following a similar move by Meta and others, according to Reuters.
Alphabet said: “Individuals and companies can create artificial intelligence programs based on the new Gima model from the open family of models.” The company explained that the main technical data, such as the so-called model weights; Available to the public.
This move may attract software engineers to build on Google’s technology and encourage use of its cloud division. The company said Gima’s models are “designed” for Google Cloud, with customers using the service for the first time getting a $300 account.
Google has stopped short of making Gima fully “open source,” which means the company may have a role in determining terms of use and ownership. Gima will allow developers to create their own guidelines or list of banned words when included in their projects, and also includes a debugging tool, allowing users to investigate Gima’s behavior and correct issues.
According to The Verge, these models will work better with English-language tasks at the present time, as Google hopes to be able to build with developers and the artificial intelligence community to meet the needs of markets speaking other languages.
Unlike Gima, Google has not opened up its larger, distinct models known as Gemini, and said Gima models are 2 to 7 billion parameters in size, which is the number of different values the algorithm takes into account to generate output.
Meta models for artificial intelligence range from 7 to 70 billion parameters in size, and Google did not reveal the size of its largest model, the Gemini.
OpenAI’s GPT3 model, announced in 2020, contains 175 billion parameters.
Nvidia said yesterday that it worked with Google to ensure that Gima models run smoothly on its chips. Nvidia also said that it will soon make the chatbot program – which it is developing to run artificial intelligence models on Windows computers – work with Gemma.
