Congratulations to Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria and his PhD Student Bhardwaj Rishabh for winning Gemma Academic Program GCP credit award. Through this award, Google provides academic access to Gemma, a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology as Gemini models. The award is given to support the research of selected candidates worldwide following a rigorous application review conducted by a team of experts at Google. The award includes a generous and extendable grant of US $5,000 in credits for the Google Cloud Platform to support AI Safety and Alignment research conducted by Rishabh Bhardwaj, along with his advisor, Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria. The grant will be used to evaluate the safety of AI systems by understanding the adversarial robustness of Large Language Models (LLMs) arising from multilingual and out-of-distribution semantic prompting. The credits will also be used to understand and propose novel safety alignment and realignment methods, as well as to explore the tension between performance and safety.

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models