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  1. Open source

    Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 as open weights (opens the original source in a new tab)

    A 740-million-parameter model built to run on the device itself. It turns text, images, audio and video into embeddings (lists of numbers that capture meaning) for search and retrieval. Licence: Apache 2.0.

    Google · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  2. Research

    Google tests its geospatial AI model on public health (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Google Research shares five case studies in which partners used PDFM, a model that sums up each place as a list of numbers, to study health questions such as cardiovascular disease deaths in U.S. counties.

    Google Research · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  3. Trending

    openTPU, an open-source AI chip designed with AI agents (opens the original source in a new tab)

    A project testing how far AI agents can go at hardware design. One repo holds the chip design, instruction set, simulator, compiler and host software; it runs LFM2.5-230M on an FPGA, a reprogrammable chip card.

    200 points on Hacker News

    openTPU · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  4. GitHub

    rea (opens the original source in a new tab)

    REA connects an AI agent to tools for taking apart native programs, JavaScript and Electron apps, .NET code and websites, so it can explain how a feature works without the source code.

    morluto / rea2,963 stars today9,130 total starsTypeScriptas of 6 Oct

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