Google Unveils New Gemma Language Models for Flexible AI Development
• Google launched two new open lightweight language models called Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, inspired by its Gemini models.
• The Gemma models are available for commercial and research use with access to notebooks and integrations with popular platforms.
• Google refers to Gemma as "open models" not open source - allowing flexibility to use and fine-tune but not redistribute or own variants.
• The smaller Gemma models can enable AI applications to run on local machines and single cloud hosts, unlocking new development approaches.
• Google released a toolkit to help build safer AI applications with Gemma, as well as a debugging tool.