Excited to share new work done Google DeepMind: 🏔️ DOLOMITES: Domain-Specific Long-Form Methodical Tasks, a new long-form generation benchmark for evaluating language models on **realistic** domain-specific tasks. Website: dolomites-benchmark.github.io Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05938

I am absolutely thrilled to announce the release of Gemma 2! Today, we're releasing both pre-trained-only and fully post-trained 9B and 27B models. The full technical report is here: goo.gle/gemma2report and it's live *right now* on aistudio.google.com.

COLM 2024 notifications are out. It has been an absolute pleasure working on the program for COLM alongside Yoav Artzi (PC-ing COLM) Danqi Chen and Angela Fan. Congrats to all the authors of accepted papers!

Great job PCs, ACs and reviewers! Really appreciate all your hard work 👏🙏👍 Dipanjan Das Danqi Chen Yoav Artzi (PC-ing COLM) and Angela Fan! Congratulations to all authors 🎉

Some really solid papers on this list.

If you have an accepted paper at COLM and require a Visa letter, please fill out this form. forms.gle/mR1W34oZMeQ3yT… We will follow-up with additional instructions.

COLM is launching two programs to support attendance with applications due **July 31**.... get ready... set ... go! Student/postdoc Volunteer application: forms.gle/XJ6zYBKnnaHCNi… Travel Scholarship application: forms.gle/cyN4Zdzb2xB6kb… Please RT to spread the word 🙏

Attention students, postdocs and early stage faculty from underrepresented communities in AI: There are some financial aids to support your attendance. Please apply by 31st July.

If you are planning on checking out COLM, I recommend getting a ticket (and probably hotel) this week. colmweb.org Was not the intention to have it be limited access, and we're doing everything to scale in future years. People seem interested in language models.

Huge congratulations and thanks for the gracious shoutout, A. Feder Cooper and team! Our paper was recently accepted to Conference on Language Modeling, so please come check it out if you're attending!

This launch is part of our factuality work in Gemini. Super excited to see this feature go out.

Program overview and special sessions are on the website (and you already know about our keynote speakers) colmweb.org/program-overvi… colmweb.org/SpecialSession… colmweb.org/Keynotes.html

Gemini 1.5 Pro's latest post-trained iteration is #1 on the LMSys leaderboard. Congrats to the Gemini team!

Excited to see Gemini #1 on lmsys. Nice ELO of 1300 :-)

It was always great fun to discuss ideas and results with Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas Welcome back & let's go! ♊️♊️🚀🚀 techcrunch.com/2024/08/02/cha…

Some special things are happening Google DeepMind lately.

A reminder to everyone that COLM tickets are available for purchase.

Reminder: there are still some more tickets available for Conference on Language Modeling. The conference is happening in little less than two months!

One of the better takes regarding the ACL debate.

As tickets sales are on pace, a quick update to our rapidly growing set of fantastic sponsors! Thank you all for your support! 🙏🙏🙏 Tickets still available here: whova.com/portal/registr…