Google’s brazenly accessible Gemma assortment of AI fashions has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads. Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind, introduced the determine on X over the weekend, additionally revealing that builders have created greater than 70,000 variants of Gemma on the AI dev platform Hugging Face.
Google launched Gemma in February 2024, aiming to compete with different “open” mannequin households like Meta’s Llama. The newest Gemma releases are multimodal, which means that they’ll work with photos in addition to textual content, and assist over 100 languages. Google has additionally created variations of Gemma fine-tuned for explicit functions, like drug discovery.
Whereas 140 million downloads in roughly a 12 months is a head-turning metric, Gemma trails far behind Llama, maybe its chief rival, which surpassed 1.2 billion downloads in late April.
Value noting is that Gemma, in addition to Llama, has been criticized for customized, non-standard licensing phrases, which some devs say have made utilizing the fashions commercially a dangerous proposition.
