It comes in 2 billion, 4B, 26B and 31B variants and works on anything from high powered hardware (high parameters) to edge computing and mobile phones (lower parameters).
The 31B edition ranks third on the Arena AI leaderboard for open source models, and the 26B one is sixth, «outperforming models 20x its size,» as Google puts it.
The new models have also been strengthened with agent workflows, and let you build agents to «interact with different tools and APIs and execute workflows,» Google says.
The models are available today for download on Hugging Face and online at Google AI Studio.
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