AI lab announcements, 29 July – 4 August 2024

Hugging Face

Hugging FaceNew model· 31 Jul

Google releases Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma and Gemma Scope

Google has released three new Gemma model variants: Gemma 2 2B (a 2.6B parameter small model), ShieldGemma (safety classifiers), and Gemma Scope (sparse autoencoders for Gemma 2 2B and 9B).

Hugging FaceDeveloper tool· 30 Jul

Memory-efficient Diffusion Transformers with Quanto and Diffusers

Hugging Face announces that its Quanto quantization toolkit can be used with Diffusers to reduce GPU memory consumption for Transformer-based diffusion pipelines, including PixArt-Sigma, Stable…

Hugging FaceStory of the weekInfrastructure· 29 Jul

Serverless Inference with Hugging Face and NVIDIA NIM

Hugging Face and NVIDIA launch a serverless inference service called NVIDIA NIM API (serverless) on the Hugging Face Hub, available to Enterprise Hub organizations, providing pay-as-you-go access to…

Replicate

Replicate· 2 Aug

Replicate Intelligence #9

Weekly bulletin covering new open-source AI models and tools, including FLUX.1 image generation, SAM 2 segmentation, Gemma 2 2B language model, and Gemma Scope interpretability tool.

ReplicateNew model· 2 Aug

FLUX.1: First Impressions

Replicate introduces FLUX.1, a new text-to-image AI model using flow matching instead of diffusion, and shares first impressions of its capabilities in text rendering, light and texture, artistic…