However, unlike open-source models, Gemma is not entirely open-source as it doesn't come with a software license with few restrictions. Google's move to release Gemma is seen as a strategy to compete with Meta, which has been releasing open-weights models. Google claims the 7B model outperforms Meta's Llama 2 7B and 13B models on several benchmarks for math, Python code generation, general knowledge, and commonsense reasoning tasks. The model is available through Kaggle and Hugging Face.
Key takeaways:
- Google has announced a new family of AI language models called Gemma, which are free, open-weights models that can run locally on a desktop or laptop computer.
- Gemma models come in two sizes: Gemma 2B (2 billion parameters) and Gemma 7B (7 billion parameters), each available in pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants.
- Google claims that the Gemma 7B model outperforms Meta's Llama 2 7B and 13B models on several benchmarks for math, Python code generation, general knowledge, and commonsense reasoning tasks.
- Alongside the Gemma release, Google also launched a 'Responsible Generative AI Toolkit' aimed at providing guidance and tools for developing 'safe and responsible' AI applications.