Syed, the former CEO of the publication The Markup, will lead the foundation’s $30 million portfolio of programs beginning July 1.
She will focus on partnering with organizations “to shift the narrative on AI,” create and fund open source datasets, tools and research, and build a community of responsible tech talent
The Aurora supercomputer, which Intel built in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprises and the Argonne National Laboratory, is now the fastest computer in the world for AI, reaching 1.012 exaflops. An exaflop is equal to one quintillion floating point calculations per second.
Intel says Aurora is designed specifically for generative AI use cases “to accelerate scientific discovery.”
Google teased the next generation of its small language model Gemma, including a larger version with 27 billion parameters (or how much a model understands).
The company also announced PaliGemma, an open-source model in the Gemma family for labeling photos and adding captions to images.
With more AI features coming to Google Workspace and other Google products, customers might be wondering if this means the next Gemini version learned from their emails. Google says it will not use user files on its platform to teach Gemini or other AI models.
Google added a new feature to Workspace that lets users ask an AI agent questions about meetings, emails, and everything else that someone may need to know at work. The AI Teammate, renamed Chip during Google I/O, takes information from company data to answer questions.
Google added AI into Search so people who don’t like planning that much (aka me) can cosplay an organized person. It lets people use Google Search to find the best restaurants for their specific event, create a meal plan with food they actually like, or organize trips with friends.
Google previewed Veo, a new text-to-video generator that lets filmmakers write prompts to build cinematic shots. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Veo will be available on preview via a waitlist.
