Ian Ballantyne retweeted
Your agents have spoken. They want more compute. We’ve answered: a new Mac Mini M6 is being raffled off TONIGHT at the Open Source AI Awards. Keep your agents happy. 🏆
I’ll be speaking about why open source AI and open models are essential to keeping innovation accessible, AI eedom to build in everyone’s hands.
Joining me on stage:
• Peter Walker @PeterJ_Walker — @OpenRouter
• Ian Ballantyne @IanBallantyne — @GoogleDeepMind
• Daniel Han @danielhanchen — @UnslothAI
• Irene Solaiman @IreneSolaiman — @huggingface
• Ahmad M. Osman @TheAhmadOsman — @OsmanticAI
• Alex Newman @thedotmack — @Claude_Memory
• Lucas Atkins @latkins — @arcee_ai
• Basil Chatha @realbasilchatha — @latentspacepod, moderating the fireside with Peter
Then we celebrate the builders behind the breakthroughs with @open_intel_fdn.
🏆 Project awards:
The Bedrock Award • The Reward Signal Award • The Guardrails Award • The Reality Check Award • The Mission Control Award • The Glass Box Award
🏆 Individual awards:
The Community Lifeline Award • The Unsung Maintainer Award • The Open Knowledge Award • The Naming Things Is Hard Award
And yes, there are prizes for the “Best OSAI Week Post” on X. Share your highlights using BOTH #OpenSourceAIWeek and #OpenIntelligence to enter.
🍽️ Doors open at 5 PM with hot food
🎤 Program starts at 6 PM sharp
Interest is high and entry is first come, first served. Arrive early!
Registration is required: luma.com/7ebvz0oq
Let’s give the people building open AI their moment.
#OpenSourceAIWeek #OpenIntelligence
I’ll be speaking about why open source AI and open models are essential to keeping innovation accessible, AI eedom to build in everyone’s hands.
Joining me on stage:
• Peter Walker @PeterJ_Walker — @OpenRouter
• Ian Ballantyne @IanBallantyne — @GoogleDeepMind
• Daniel Han @danielhanchen — @UnslothAI
• Irene Solaiman @IreneSolaiman — @huggingface
• Ahmad M. Osman @TheAhmadOsman — @OsmanticAI
• Alex Newman @thedotmack — @Claude_Memory
• Lucas Atkins @latkins — @arcee_ai
• Basil Chatha @realbasilchatha — @latentspacepod, moderating the fireside with Peter
Then we celebrate the builders behind the breakthroughs with @open_intel_fdn.
🏆 Project awards:
The Bedrock Award • The Reward Signal Award • The Guardrails Award • The Reality Check Award • The Mission Control Award • The Glass Box Award
🏆 Individual awards:
The Community Lifeline Award • The Unsung Maintainer Award • The Open Knowledge Award • The Naming Things Is Hard Award
And yes, there are prizes for the “Best OSAI Week Post” on X. Share your highlights using BOTH #OpenSourceAIWeek and #OpenIntelligence to enter.
🍽️ Doors open at 5 PM with hot food
🎤 Program starts at 6 PM sharp
Interest is high and entry is first come, first served. Arrive early!
Registration is required: luma.com/7ebvz0oq
Let’s give the people building open AI their moment.
#OpenSourceAIWeek #OpenIntelligence
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Looking forward to Open Source AI Awards Night, tonight in San Francisco. The community is coming together to celebrate the amazing contributions and very proud that Google DeepMind is supporting it 🙌♥️🫂 share.google/LXQE44SbUztpqD…
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#PyTorchConf + Open Source AI Week are calling. Gemma open models answers the call. It's a packed week in SF / San Jose and I'm ready for it 🫡
💪 Arm Create: Gemma on-device session (Oct 18): luma.com/w9n0o36l
🎤 Open Weight Debate Night (Oct 19): luma.com/592fcwx2
osters, Demos (Oct 20 - 21st): pytorch.org/event/pytorch-…
🏆 Open Source AI Awards Night (Oct 23): luma.com/7ebvz0oq
🛠️ The Google Gemma Hardware Hackathon w/ Android, Arduino, Coral, LiteRT, Nvidia, Pixel, Qualcomm, Raspberry Pi, Synaptics (Oct 24): agihouse.org/events/the-goo…
In town? Come say hi 👋 and join the open source AI community!
💪 Arm Create: Gemma on-device session (Oct 18): luma.com/w9n0o36l
🎤 Open Weight Debate Night (Oct 19): luma.com/592fcwx2
osters, Demos (Oct 20 - 21st): pytorch.org/event/pytorch-…
🏆 Open Source AI Awards Night (Oct 23): luma.com/7ebvz0oq
🛠️ The Google Gemma Hardware Hackathon w/ Android, Arduino, Coral, LiteRT, Nvidia, Pixel, Qualcomm, Raspberry Pi, Synaptics (Oct 24): agihouse.org/events/the-goo…
In town? Come say hi 👋 and join the open source AI community!
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Thanks to @open_intel_fdn @matthew_d_white @agihouse_org @googlegemma @GoogleDeepMind all our partners and more for enabling this incredible lineup! 🙏
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Ian Ballantyne retweeted
Hardware Partner Spotlight: NVIDIA joins The @Google Gemma Hardware Hackathon @ AGI House!
Build with Gemma. Run it locally on @NVIDIARobotics Jetson. Bring your next edge or physical AI idea to life.
On October 24, join 100 selected builders, the @GoogleDeepMind Gemma team, and hardware partners for a full day of hands-on building—from camera assistants and intelligent edge devices to robotics applications.
🤖 NVIDIA hardware available to borrow during the hackathon:
• 15 Jetson Orin Nano Super developer kits, each with an NVMe SSD
• 15 Jetson Thor developer kits
These kits are available for on-site development and must be returned after the event. Availability is limited.
🏆NVIDIA hardware awards are also in the works—stay tuned for the final prize details.
Every project must use a Gemma-based model and run entirely on-device. Bring your laptop, your ideas, and your robot if you have one.
Compete for a share of $45,000 in cash prizes, plus partner hardware awards.
📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 10 AM–5 PM PT
📍AGI House · Hillsborough, CA
Hosted by Google DeepMind and AGI House
Apply to build → agihouse.org/events/the-goo…
#Gemma #NVIDIA #Jetson #EdgeAI #PhysicalAI #AGIHouse
Build with Gemma. Run it locally on @NVIDIARobotics Jetson. Bring your next edge or physical AI idea to life.
On October 24, join 100 selected builders, the @GoogleDeepMind Gemma team, and hardware partners for a full day of hands-on building—from camera assistants and intelligent edge devices to robotics applications.
🤖 NVIDIA hardware available to borrow during the hackathon:
• 15 Jetson Orin Nano Super developer kits, each with an NVMe SSD
• 15 Jetson Thor developer kits
These kits are available for on-site development and must be returned after the event. Availability is limited.
🏆NVIDIA hardware awards are also in the works—stay tuned for the final prize details.
Every project must use a Gemma-based model and run entirely on-device. Bring your laptop, your ideas, and your robot if you have one.
Compete for a share of $45,000 in cash prizes, plus partner hardware awards.
📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 10 AM–5 PM PT
📍AGI House · Hillsborough, CA
Hosted by Google DeepMind and AGI House
Apply to build → agihouse.org/events/the-goo…
#Gemma #NVIDIA #Jetson #EdgeAI #PhysicalAI #AGIHouse
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Easier to navigate, more interactive, friendly to agents. These are all things I'd use to describe gemma.ai our new destination for everything Gemma!
Super proud of the Gemma DevX team for this one. Congrats @MaartenGr and Ju-yeong for your awesome work👏
Super proud of the Gemma DevX team for this one. Congrats @MaartenGr and Ju-yeong for your awesome work👏
Introducing gemma.ai
The new hub for Gemma, including
📚Inference and training guides
🧠 Deep visual architectural guides
🖼️ Online demos, even running models in the browser
And a lot more to come, check it out!
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Ian Ballantyne retweeted
Google Embedding Gemma 2 is the DeepSeek moment of embedding models.
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Imagine finding a photo of your cat by searching with their "Meow" 🙀
EmbeddingGemma 2 is a (very) small (740M), multimodal (text, code, images, video and audio) model you can use to search... pretty much anything. A photo, a sound, a line of code.
Btw: runs on phones / IoT 📱
EmbeddingGemma 2 is a (very) small (740M), multimodal (text, code, images, video and audio) model you can use to search... pretty much anything. A photo, a sound, a line of code.
Btw: runs on phones / IoT 📱
Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2! 🚀
Our lightweight, multimodal embedding model maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single, unified embedding space. Optimized for on-device use cases, it features:
- 740M parameter form factor with modular encoders
- Flexible dimension ia Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL)
- 8K context window (4x larger than text-only EmbeddingGemma)
- A commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license
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It was so awesome to help kick off @hacktoberfest with @SwiftAlphaOne and talk all things @googlegemma and running open models ❤️. The opportunity in this space is really wide open and I'm super excited to see what people build 🙌 #hacktoberfest2026 #googlegemma
Hacktoberfest 2026 is officially live!
This year, we're focused on open-weight model and open-source AI. We've got over 300+ events, livestreams, challenges, and free swag for participants all month long.
Learn more about our vision and how the celebration has evolved: blog.mlh.com/everything-you…
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Ian Ballantyne retweeted
Introducing Gemini 4 Argon – our new frontier model.
It’s built for complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense – rolling out today to a set of trusted testers through our Fairwind Program.
It’s built for complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense – rolling out today to a set of trusted testers through our Fairwind Program.
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I use Colab daily and I can't believe I missed this announcement 😞. This alone is worth getting a Google AI plan for. An A100 with 80GB of RAM is enough to run a Gemma 4 31B in bf16 precision 🖐️🎤
Wow this is amazing 🔥
Google is now including Colab inside their Gemini plans... so you have access to premium GPUs!!
You can basically:
- Run any open source model
- Even image/audio/video gen
- Fine-tune a lot of OSS models
Everything on an expensive Nvidia GPU without n it. So many possibilities.
Time to build!
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You can also full-fine tune the E4B in bf16, LoRA tune the 26B A4B, QLoRA tune the 31B. This is madness 🤯
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Me walking through town: There's a distinct difference in listening to music from the 80s vs music inspired by the 80s. The former is the nostalgic joy of something that has lasted the test of time, the later is an excitement about what is possible today, driven through nostalgia. I regularly flip between both perspectives.
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Yes! Yes! Yes! Gemma models unlocked in Antigravity SDK 🔓 Got some interesting uses to try for sure 😎
Run open models like Gemma 4 completely offline in the Antigravity SDK.
Built on Google AI Edge’s LiteRT, you can now run Gemma 4 directly on your local GPU. Zero API costs, total data privacy, and no internet required.
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Well that escalated quickly 👀
Amazing work by @mmastrac on the implementation and @dylayed on making it super accessible.
We live in an incredible age of rapid exploration!
Amazing work by @mmastrac on the implementation and @dylayed on making it super accessible.
We live in an incredible age of rapid exploration!
What @mmastrac done to build out DiffusionGemma-Jev (djev) is amazing!
You can now deploy djev to Google Cloud Run and have your own Jev API-compatible endpoint to play with in just one gcloud commands:
github.com/taeold/djev-run
Costs ~$3/hr while active ($0 when idle)
Super e of the future without spending $$$$ on a local Blackwell setup 😅
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Ian Ballantyne retweeted
We prototyped a tactile desk robot using LEGO, a Raspberry Pi, and a hybrid LLM setup:
✨ Gemma 4 runs locally for instant, private zero-cost chat
✨ Auto-escalates to Gemini Flash for complex reasoning & code
Here’s how we wired and coded DinoDesk AI:
dev.to/googleai/how-w…
✨ Gemma 4 runs locally for instant, private zero-cost chat
✨ Auto-escalates to Gemini Flash for complex reasoning & code
Here’s how we wired and coded DinoDesk AI:
dev.to/googleai/how-w…
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I use Gemini Live almost daily to brainstorm, make quick decisions, answer questions. The UX is what I love most about voice AI, especially when it gets me exactly what I'm after... i.e. A bacon roll 🥓
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👇 Check out Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking to build your own experience.
➡️ Blog: blog.google/innovation-and…
➡️ Live API: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/doc…
➡️ Blog: blog.google/innovation-and…
➡️ Live API: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/doc…
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As someone that now spends more time talking to agents then typing to them I say "Gemini, what can we do today?"
Say hello (literally) to Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, our new SOTA live audio models, available with frontier price + performance.
3.8 Live supports 97 languages (can seamlessly switch), async tool calls, and more!
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