Google DeepMind Launches MatFormer Framework to Improve On-Device AI Capabilities [Video]

Google Pay GM and vice president Ambarish Kenghe announced the introduction of the MatFormer framework, which he said would “further enhance our on-device capabilities”.

“With MatFormer, you can mix and match AI models within a single framework to use the right sized model for your task. This gives you the best of both worlds – high performance and low resource consumption,” Kenghe said during Google I/O Connect in Bengaluru today.

With the announcement, the framework is officially available to developers on GitHub.

As Kenghe said, the framework is designed specifically to improve on-device capabilities. As of now, Android has a built-in foundational model, Gemma Nano, designed specifically for mobile devices, the first mobile OS to have a built-in model. The model was developed …