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Google Gemini’s Gemma open models reached a milestone of 150 million downloads this month.
Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind, also revealed that developers have created more than 70,000 variants of Gemma on the AI dev platform Hugging Face.
This collection of lightweight models, built from the same research and technology that powers Gemini 2.0, was launched in February 2024 to compete with another open model like Meta’s Llama. In late April, it exceeded 1.2 billion downloads.
The latest Gemma releases are multimodal, enabling users to work with images and text in 100 languages. Versions are also fine-tuned for particular applications, like drug discovery.
Gemma and Llama have non-standard licensing terms, which some developers say they might be risky for commercial use of the models.
Gemma just passed 150 million downloads and over 70k variants on Hugging Face🚀🚀🚀
What would you like to see in the next Gemma versions?
— Omar Sanseviero (@osanseviero) May 11, 2025
