Google Unveils Gemma, a Free Chatbot to Rival Meta's Llama 2
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Google released Gemma, a free, open-weights family of chatbot models that can run locally and reportedly outperform Meta's Llama 2.
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Gemma comes in 2B and 7B parameter sizes with pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants, built using techniques from Google's commercial Gemini models.
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Gemma is Google's first major open large language model release since ChatGPT ignited interest in AI chatbots.
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While not open source, Gemma is source-available and seen as a key step towards transparency and privacy in chatbots.
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Google claims Gemma 7B outperforms Meta's Llama 2 on benchmarks, and paired the release with a "Responsible Generative AI Toolkit."