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Google’s parent company Alphabet has been seeking advice and exploring its options to purchase the marketing software company HubSpot, valued at $35 billion. Speaking to Reuters, anonymous sources familiar with the situation revealed that Alphabet has met with Morgan Stanley investment bankers for advice on how much to offer and to discuss the possibility that antitrust regulators would permit such a purchase. If the purchase were to go ahead, it would be Alphabet’s biggest acquisition to date. The tech giant is currently sitting on cash reserves of over $110 billion so it is likely keen to make use of this. Despite the reserves, Googl...... Read Full article on HadNews

Google has released a new version of Gemini, its multimodal large language models, only a week after rolling out its Gemini 1.0 Ultra model. Gemini 1.5 is the tech giant’s next-generation model, which is said to have “dramatically enhanced performance.” According to DeepMind, Alphabet’s AI division, 1.5 Pro can process up to one million tokens of information. Introducing Gemini 1.5: our next-generation model with dramatically enhanced performance. It also achieves a breakthrough in long-context understanding. The first release is 1.5 Pro, capable of processing up to 1 million tokens of information. 🧵 https://t.co/qT0aXdFL0n pic.twitte...... Read Full article on HadNews