Posted by Jaclyn Konzelmann and Megan Li - Google Labs Grab an API key in Google AI Studio, and get started with the Gemini API Cookbook Less than two months ago, we made our next-generation Gemini 1.5 Pro model available in Google AI Studio for developers to try out. We’ve been amazed by what the community has been able to debug, create and learn using our groundbreaking 1 million context window. Today, we’re making Gemini 1.5 Pro available in 180+ countries via the Gemini API in public preview, with a first-ever native audio (speech) understanding capability and a new File API to make it ..read more

Posted by Matt Ridenour, Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem - USA Startups are at the forefront of developing solutions for some of humanity's most pressing challenges by using AI, driving breakthroughs across industries from healthcare to cybersecurity. To help AI-focused startups scale quickly while building responsibly, we’re thrilled to introduce the inaugural class of the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI-First program in North America. This new program is for startups building AI solutions based in the U.S. and Canada. This is the first of several AI-focused programs we'll offer thr ..read more

Posted by Tris Warkentin – Director, Product Management and Jane Fine - Senior Product Manager In February we announced Gemma, our family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. The community's incredible response – including impressive fine-tuned variants, Kaggle notebooks, integration into tools and services, recipes for RAG using databases like MongoDB, and lots more – has been truly inspiring. Today, we're excited to announce our first round of additions to the Gemma family, expanding the possibilities for ..read more

Posted by Bitnoori Keum – DevRel Community Manager The ML Olympiad consists of Kaggle Community Competitions organized by ML GDE, TFUG, and other ML communities, aiming to provide developers with opportunities to learn and practice machine learning. Following successful rounds in 2022 and 2023, the third round has now launched with support from Google for Developers for each competition host. Over the last two rounds, 605 teams participated in 32 competitions, generating 105 discussions and 170 notebooks. We encourage you to join this round to gain hands-on experience with machine learning a ..read more

Posted by Leticia Lago – Developer Marketing In celebration of Women’s History month, we’re celebrating the founders behind groundbreaking apps and games from around the world - made by women or for women. Let's discover four of my favorites in this latest batch of nine #WeArePlay stories. Múkami Kinoti Kimotho Royelles Revolution / Royelles Revolution: Gaming For Girls (USA) Múkami's journey began when she noticed the lack of representation for girls in the gaming industry. Determined to change this narrative, she created Royelles, a game designed to inspire girls and non-binary people t ..read more

Posted by Joe Fernandez – Google AI Developer Relations We are off to another exciting year in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it's time to build more applications with Google AI technology! The Build with Google AI video series is for developers looking to build helpful and practical applications with AI. We focus on useful code projects you can implement and extend in an afternoon to bring the power of artificial intelligence into your workflow or organization. Our first season received over 100,000 views in six weeks! We are glad to see that so many of you liked the series, and we are ex ..read more

Posted by Cher Hu, Product Manager and Saravanan Ganesh, Software Engineer for Gemini API The following post was originally published in October 2023. Today, we've updated the post to share how you can easily tune Gemini models in Google AI Studio or with the Gemini API. Last year, we launched Gemini 1.0 Pro, our mid-sized multimodal model optimized for scaling across a wide range of tasks. And with 1.5 Pro this year, we demonstrated the possibilities of what large language models can do with an experimental 1M context window. Now, to quickly and easily customize the generally available Gem ..read more

Posted by Jeanine Banks – VP & General Manager, Developer X, and Head of Developer Relations Google I/O is arriving this year on May 14th and you’re invited to join us online! I/O offers something for everyone, whether you are developing a new application, modernizing an existing one, or transforming it into a business. The Gemini era unlocks new possibilities for developers to build creative and productive AI-enabled applications. I/O is where you’ll hear how you can get from idea to production AI applications faster. We’re excited to share what’s new for mobile, web, and multiplatform ..read more

Posted by Justyna Politanska-Pyszko – Program Manager, Google Developer Experts For Women's History Month, we're shining a spotlight on Gema Parreño Piqueras, an AI/ML Google Developer Expert (GDE) from Madrid, Spain. GDEs are recognized by Google for their outstanding technical expertise and passion for sharing knowledge. Gema Parreño Piqueras, AI/ML GDE, Madrid, Spain Gema's dedication to the GDE program makes her a true leader within the Google Developers community, and her work in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning pushes the boundaries of Google's technological capabil ..read more

Posted by Mark Sherwood – Senior Product Manager and Juhyun Lee – Staff Software Engineer TensorFlow Lite has been a powerful tool for on-device machine learning since its release in 2017, and MediaPipe further extended that power in 2019 by supporting complete ML pipelines. While these tools initially focused on smaller on-device models, today marks a dramatic shift with the experimental MediaPipe LLM Inference API. This new release enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to run fully on-device across platforms. This new capability is particularly transformative considering the memory and comp ..read more