{"id":309367,"date":"2025-12-10T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309367\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:46:07","slug":"these-developers-are-changing-lives-with-gemma-3n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309367\/","title":{"rendered":"These developers are changing lives with Gemma 3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"ba4a2\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/models\/gemma\/gemma-3n\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemma 3n<\/a> was released, we hoped developers would use its on-device, multimodal capabilities to make a difference in people\u2019s lives. With more than 600 projects submitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/competitions\/google-gemma-3n-hackathon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemma 3n Impact Challenge<\/a> on Kaggle, the community delivered on that promise.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"aj3sn\">Today, we\u2019re excited to introduce the winners:<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fjurp\">Gemma Vision is an AI assistant designed for visually impaired people. The developer\u2019s brother, who is blind, played a vital role in ensuring features were genuinely helpful for the blind community.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"caiqt\">Because holding a phone can be impractical while using a cane, the system was designed to process visuals from a phone camera strapped to the user\u2019s chest. Functions can be triggered using a 8BitDo Micro controller or voice commands, allowing users to perform actions without navigating touchscreen menus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Gemma 3n was released, we hoped developers would use its on-device, multimodal capabilities to make a difference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,3085,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-309367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-none","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}