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Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Flash, a lightweight AI model with two variants: 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Flash-8B optimized for speed and efficiency. Learn more about building with Gemini Flash and explore other Google DeepMind innovations on their website.

Needle-in-a-Needlestack appears to be a website with links to code and articles about large language models, including Llama 3.1 and GPT4o-mini.

Simon Willison's blog post links to Google's PaliGemma model, an openly licensed Vision Language Model (VLM) that can identify and outline objects in an image. via @simonw

Google Search will be replacing their traditional website links with AI-generated answers, a change that some believe prioritizes keeping users on Google's platform. via kottke.org

This interview features artist Angie Wang, who discusses her creative process, AI in art, and the existential questions her work explores. via Nautilus.

Jason Kottke thinks this Vox article about "third places" — social spaces beyond work and home — is good and readers share their own experiences with third places in the comments. via kottke.org