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Agarwal: Filtered 9B Synthetic Data Outperforms 27B Self-Generated Data
“One thing we found consistently, so here what we had two models, nine Gemma, nine B and Gemma, 27 B, and we found consistently that actually generating data from nine B in a compute match setting is always better, even better for distilling or actually improvi…”
Rishabh Agarwal Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 17:41 The Magic of LLM Distillation — Rishabh Agarwal, Google DeepMind
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Ameisen: Multi-Hop Reasoning Circuits Are Extremely Similar Across Small and Large Models
“The way the circuit looks in Gemma, like a really small model is extremely similar to the way that it looks like a huge model, which that in itself is, I think like a pretty novel discovery. It's like, oh, you have these models that are like super different. Y…”
Emmanuel Ameisen Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 3:36 The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen
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Sanseviero: Smaller Gemma 4 models process audio and 30-60 second videos
“Multimodal wise, the smaller models can understand audio Images and short videos, so, 30 to 62nd videos and audios.”
Omar Sanseviero May 24, 2026 ▶ 6:43 ⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
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Sanseviero: Gemini Nano on Pixel and Samsung phones is built on Gemma
“If you buy a Pixel phone or a high-end Samsung, they come with a Gemini Nano, and Gemini Nano is packed into the operating system, and Gemini Nano is really built on top of Gemma.”
Omar Sanseviero May 24, 2026 ▶ 2:13 ⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
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