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Google ships it: Gemma open LLMs and Gemini backlash

Google ships it: Gemma open LLMs and Gemini backlash

Interconnects

February 22, 202417m 16s

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Show Notes

Google rejoins the open model party and gets some backlash for a frequent problem for generative AI.
This is AI generated audio with Python and 11Labs. Music generated by Meta's MusicGen.
Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-tools
Original post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/gemma-google-ships-it

00:00 Google ships it: Gemma open LLMs and Gemini backlash
03:12 Getting to know Gemma
07:11 Alignment details
08:55 Aside: What is REINFORCE? Some history of RL
11:08 Implementation details and RLHF
12:18 Terms of use: RAIL Licenses history repeated
14:05 Is Google back on top? Gemini's woes

Figure 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/gemma/img_008.webp
Figure 2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/gemma/img_014.png
Figure 3: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/gemma/img_035.png
Figure 4: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/gemma/img_051.png
Figure 5: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/gemma/img_055.png



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