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Gemma

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Gemma is a family of lightweight open-weight language models from Google, released in February 2024 in 2B and 7B sizes, each pre-trained and instruction-tuned, and built from the research behind Gemini. The text-to-text, English-language models have an 8,192-token context window, and their terms of use allow responsible commercial use. [1] [2] [3] Primary source

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  • Released Primary source[1] [4]February 21, 2024
  • Status AvailableWeights still downloadable from Google's Hugging Face organisation (gated behind the Gemma terms) on 2026-10-01. Primary source[3] [2]
      • Input text Primary source[3]Inputs and outputs [2]Inputs and outputs
      • Output text Primary source[3]Inputs and outputs [2]Inputs and outputs
      • Feature Fine tuning availableGoogle provided toolchains and notebooks for supervised fine-tuning. Primary source[1]Optimized across frameworks, tools and hardware
      • Open weights Yes Primary source[1]Gemma open models [3] [2]
      • Context window 8192 tokens tokens Primary source[2]Context Length [5]section 2
      • Access Open-weights downloadWeights on Google's Hugging Face organisation (gated behind the Gemma terms); the announcement also names deployment on Vertex AI and Google Kubernetes Engine. Primary source[1]Gemma open models [3] [2]

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      Predecessors

      No known predecessor.

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      Based on

      Not derived from another model.

      Variants and derived

      Siblings

      None recorded.

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      Variants

      Gemma 2B

      Same dates as Gemma.

      • Variant Inline variant in this record.Released as pre-trained and instruction-tuned (-it) checkpoints. Primary source[1]Gemma open models [3]

      Also known as: google/gemma-2b, google/gemma-2b-it

      Differs in:

      • Parameters: 2B Evidence not assessed [5]Table 2

      Gemma 7B

      Same dates as Gemma.

      • Variant Inline variant in this record.Released as pre-trained and instruction-tuned (-it) checkpoints. Primary source[1]Gemma open models [2]

      Also known as: google/gemma-7b, google/gemma-7b-it

      Differs in:

      • Parameters: 7B Evidence not assessed [5]Table 2

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