Google releases Gemma 2 2B and Gemini 1.5 Pro, setting a new benchmark for open-source imaging in FLUX. This is the big AI news of the week.

Beck Moulton
14 min readSep 17, 2024

1. Google releases Gemma 2 2B and Gemini 1.5 Pro

Link: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/smaller-safer-more-transparent-advancing-responsible-ai-with-gemma/?_bhlid=5811c5dce25719cc96adfd54bc6818d0aa07cc11

Google also started making efforts last week, releasing the Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemma 2B models.

Among them, Gemini 1.5 Pro 0801 surpassed GPT-4o mini in the overall ranking of LLM arena and became the first. Google says this is An experimental version is not yet considered an official version, so it is only available in AI Studio.

But from the testing, Gemini 1.5 Pro 0801 has very powerful multimodal capabilities, basically surpassing GPT-40 and Claude 3.5, and it supports both audio and video. I tried it out with a podcast file that lasted more than an hour, and it was summarized in just over ten seconds.

In addition, Google also released Gemma 2 2B, a model that can run on the device side, and its score in the LLM arena It also surpasses many LLMs that are much larger than it.

This is the quantified performance of Gemma 2 2B combined with MLX on iPhone 15 Pro.

And this model also has built-in Google’s newly released security classifier ShieldGemma, which can effectively detect hate speech Discuss, harass, sexually…

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