Google DeepMind launches $10M research fund to study how AI systems behave in groups

Large language models usually generate text one token at a time. While this autoregressive approach delivers strong quality and instruction following, it can be inefficient for local users because GPUs often spend more time moving weights from memory than doing parallel compute. Google DeepMind’s DiffusionGemma takes a different path, generating and refining blocks of tokens […] The post DiffusionGemma: Google’s Diffusion-Based Open Model for Faster Text Generation  appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Anthropic has apologized for stealthily throttling its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, with hidden guardrails that undermine both researchers and rivals using it to develop competing systems. The company says it is reversing course and will be more transparent about when the restrictions kick in, even if that means Fable refuses more queries. Fable is the first widely available model in Anthropic's Mythos class of AI systems, a group the company has spent months warning are too dangerous for public release. Anthropic says it has addressed some of those risks by launching Fable with safeguards that prevent it from responding to certain "high-r … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of millions of different AI agents interacting with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of agents that can carry out tasks without human oversight and follow instructions given to them by other agents creates…

Modern AI systems have evolved beyond the simple chatbots that quickly became popular. Now they use semantic tools to manage workflows and link machines to machines, providing a flexible and effective framework for the next generation of business automation. What you used to build in Microsoft’s Power Platform or construct inside Biztalk is now an agent, built around large language models (LLMs) that can parse both your data and the APIs that you want to use your data with, orchestrating workflows with a level of autonomy that traditional tooling can’t match. That shift has offered new opportunities, much like those that came with business platforms like Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce. Here, tools built to solve one set of business problems could be turned into applications that could be sold to other companies. What worked for you to solve one of your problems could now be an added revenue stream, sold through platform marketplaces that helped customers manage installations and cus

DiffusionGemma is Google DeepMind's experimental 26B open model using text diffusion for up to 4x faster generation on GPUs. The post Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Today, Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma — an experimental open model built for exceptionally fast text generation. NVIDIA has optimized DiffusionGemma to run even faster across NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, the NVIDIA RTX PRO platform and NVIDIA DGX Spark systems, from local PCs to the cloud.  Rather than generating text one word at a time, DiffusionGemma generates multiple words in parallel to output whole blocks of text, opening a new, low-latency frontier for the kind of single-user workloads that developers, […]

LF AI & Data Foundation, a division of the Linux Foundation, launched a working group on Tuesday that will focus on the development of DocLang, a specification intended to support interoperable document processing across AI and agentic workflows. The working group, founded by premier members IBM, Nvidia and Red Hat, is tasked with the creation of an open, universal, AI-native document format designed to improve how enterprises prepare, exchange, and govern document data for AI systems. Contributors ABBYY and Human Signal will also be involved in its development. The announcement stated, “enterprises today work across a fragmented landscape of document formats, including PDFs, JPEGs, and other file types built primarily for human consumption rather than AI interpretation.” As organizations increasingly rely on generative AI and agentic systems, it said, “this disconnect can introduce complexity, raise costs, and reduce reliability when extracting meaning from business documents.” Mark C

AI's struggle with continuous learning reveals a critical gap between artificial and human cognitive processes. The post Chris Summerfield: AI systems mimic human behavior through vast data training, the challenge of continuous learning remains unsolved, and sleep is vital for cognitive function | The Peter McCormack Show appeared first on Crypto Briefing.