Google unveils Gemma, a new family of open AI models for devs
Just months after Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini — its most capable AI model ever — the London-based lab has released its compact offspring: Gemma.
Named after the Latin word for “precious stone,” Gemma is a new family of open models for developers and researchers.
“Demonstrating strong performance across benchmarks for language understanding and reasoning, Gemma is available worldwide starting today,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, said on Twitter.
Gemma comes in two sizes — 2 billion and 7 billion parameters. Each of them has been released with pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants.
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The lightweight models are descendants of Gemini. From their parent, they inherit technical and infrastructure components. Consequently, the models offer “best-in-class performance,” Google said.
As evidence, the tech titan revealed eye-catching comparisons with Llama-2, a family of large language models (LLMs) released by Meta a year ago.
Gemma is built to run directly on a developer laptop or desktop computer. Alongside the model weights, Google has also released a new Responsible Generative AI Toolkit to support safe use of the system.
Devs and researchers can start experimenting with Gemma now. It’s also available to any organisation for “responsible commercial usage and distribution,” Google said.
To try the models out for yourself, visit the Gemma website.
Just months after Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini — its most capable AI model ever — the London-based lab has released its compact offspring: Gemma.
Named after the Latin word for “precious stone,” Gemma is a new family of open models for developers and researchers.
“Demonstrating strong performance across benchmarks for language understanding and reasoning, Gemma is available worldwide starting today,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, said on Twitter.
Gemma comes in two sizes — 2 billion and 7 billion parameters. Each of them has been released with pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants.
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The lightweight models are descendants of Gemini. From their parent, they inherit technical and infrastructure components. Consequently, the models offer “best-in-class performance,” Google said.
As evidence, the tech titan revealed eye-catching comparisons with Llama-2, a family of large language models (LLMs) released by Meta a year ago.
Gemma is built to run directly on a developer laptop or desktop computer. Alongside the model weights, Google has also released a new Responsible Generative AI Toolkit to support safe use of the system.
Devs and researchers can start experimenting with Gemma now. It’s also available to any organisation for “responsible commercial usage and distribution,” Google said.
To try the models out for yourself, visit the Gemma website.