Google says Gemma open models have passed 300M downloads
generativist · x · 2026-07-26
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Google has long supported open source and science, citing JAX, Transformers, AlphaFold, and Gemma.
He said Gemma open models have now been downloaded 300M+ times, and argued that a strong, secure open ecosystem helps the world benefit from AI. He also said Google’s proposed standards framework is meant to support responsible deployment of both open and proprietary models.
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