Google and Demis Hassabis back open AI ecosystems, say Gemma has topped 300M downloads
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-26
Google and Demis Hassabis are again signaling strong support for open AI ecosystems.
- The post quotes Hassabis saying Google has long contributed to open source and science, from JAX and Transformers to AlphaFold and Gemma.
- He says Gemma open models have now been downloaded 300M+ times and argues that open and proprietary models both need a responsible deployment framework.
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