Published: Feb. 26, 2024, 3 a.m.
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Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We\\u2019ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.
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- Google goes \\u201copen AI\\u201d with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google\'s most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."\\n
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