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Running AI on fully managed GKE, now with new compute options, pricing and resource reservations

Kubernetes is a popular way to run AI workloads like training, and large language model (LLM) serving, including our new open model Gemma. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in Autopilot mode provides a fully managed Kubernetes platform that offers the power and flexibility of Kubernetes but without the need to worry about compute nodes, so you …

Best Free Resources to Learn Data Analysis and Data Science

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VeCLIP: Improving CLIP Training via Visual-enriched Captions

Paper abstract: Large-scale web-crawled datasets are fundamental for the success of pre-training vision-language models, such as CLIP. However, the inherent noise and potential irrelevance of web-crawled AltTexts pose challenges in achieving precise image-text alignment. Existing methods utilizing large language models (LLMs) for caption rewriting have shown promise on small, curated datasets like CC3M and CC12M. …

Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC

The surprising and not so surprising benefits of generations in the Z Garbage Collector. By Danny Thomas, JVM Ecosystem Team The latest long term support release of the JDK delivers generational support for the Z Garbage Collector. More than half of our critical streaming video services are now running on JDK 21 with Generational ZGC, …

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Confluent brings real-time capabilities to Google Cloud generative AI

In 2023, the spotlight was on generative AI (gen AI) and how it is paving the way for a new category of AI that can create and co-innovate with humans to produce new content, such as text, code, images, and music. Gen AI capabilities are not only promising but extremely powerful, given that large language …