Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit- Google Developers Blog

Introduces PaliGemma, an open vision-language model (VLM) built on SigLIP and Gemma, for tasks like image/video captioning, VQA, object detection/segmentation. Announces Gemma 2, a next-generation model with a new architecture for improved performance and efficiency, comparable to Llama 3 70B at half the size and reduced deployment costs. Releases the LLM Comparator as an open-source tool for evaluating model safety and quality side-by-side, expanding the Responsible Generative AI Toolkit.