Early Gemini 3.8 testing suggests Gemma 4.5 will be very good
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-09-03
- The author says testing Gemini 3.8 leads him to believe the upcoming open-weight Gemma 4.5 will be very good, hinting at Google's current distillation/training quality.
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