“Open AI chatbot Gemma: Google Introduces Free and Open-Weights Chatbot Family”
- Google introduces Gemma, an open AI chatbot family that can run locally and outperforms Meta’s Llama 2.
- Gemma models come in two sizes, 2B and 7B parameters, and are developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams.
- Gemma is Google’s first significant open large language model release since the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022.
- Gemma aims to provide transparency and privacy in chatbots, offering essential steps towards responsible AI development.
- Google’s Gemma release is seen as a move to compete with Meta’s open-weights models and attract developers to its Vertex AI cloud platform.