Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads

Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads.

Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it.

Google calls the ecosystem around those variants the Gemmaverse.

“What matters far more than the download count is what the community is building with them,” the two wrote.

What the number counts

Gus Martins, a Google developer relations engineer, added a caveat on Bluesky.

“1B Gemma downloads,” he wrote. “Fun fact: this doesn’t count Android and Chrome integrations.”

Google did not break the total down by model, by year, or by platform.

Omar Sanseviero, who works on Gemma at Google DeepMind, described the spread on X. “From running underwater to running at space,” he wrote.

How that compares...

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