Type: AI model family
Gemma is Google’s family of open-weight models derived from the same research as Gemini, spanning compact on-device sizes to larger server variants. It anchors much of Google’s open-model strategy and has spawned specialized derivatives. GROUNDING tracks the Gemma family’s releases, variants, and ecosystem adoption.
Recent Updates
- 2026-06-28: Interconnects AI: open model releases are spreading across a wider global ecosystem (Interconnects AI) · interconnects.ai — Open Source LLMs Interconnects AI Zyphra Cohere · Poolside · DeepSeek · Zhipu · MiniMax Arcee Sovereign · Mistral Trillion Labs · Alibaba · Qwen · Google · NVIDIA · JetBrains · Zed · Krea Photoroom CohereLabs · Zai NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 command-a-plus-05-2026-bf16 · GLM-5.2 · LLaMA
- 2026-06-29: How Movie Planner grounds LLM suggestions with real movie APIs (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — Agents Tool Use MCP Movie Planner OpenRouter · Groq · TMDB Nikita Nolan Ling 2.6 Flash · Whisper large-v3 · Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite · gpt-4o-mini · Nemotron
- 2026-06-30: FlashInfer drops from #6 to #7 in GitHub AI ranking (GitHub AI Ranking Changes (Top 10)) · github.com — GitHub FlashInfer · DeepSeek · Meta · NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM cuDNN CUTLASS · DeepSeek-V3 · Llama 4 · LLaMA · Llama 3.1
- 2026-07-02: Windows 11 guide to choosing a local LLM runtime and model (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — Open Source LLMs Qwen · Qwen3.5 4B · Gemma 4
- 2026-07-02: LLMs extract RDF triples from conversational data for personal knowledge graphs (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — arXiv · Wikidata Oshani Seneviratne · Qwen
- 2026-07-06: vLLM: high-performance open-source LLM inference and serving engine (GitHub AI Ranking Changes (Top 10)) · github.com — Open Source LLMs UC Berkeley · Hugging Face · NVIDIA · AMD · Google · Intel · IBM · Huawei Rebellions · Apple Metax Woosuk Kwon Zhuohan Li Siyuan Zhuang Ying Sheng Lianmin Zheng Cody Hao Yu Joseph E. Gonzalez Hao Zhang Ion Stoica · LLaMA · Qwen · Mixtral · DeepSeek-V3 Qwen MoE · GPT-OSS · Mamba · Qwen3.5 · LLaVA · Qwen-VL Pixtral E5-Mistral · GTE ColBERT Qwen-Math
- 2026-07-06: LLamaFactory Enters GitHub Top 10 AI Rankings with Unified Fine-Tuning Framework (GitHub AI Ranking Changes (Top 10)) · github.com — Open Source LLMs Google · Alibaba · Amazon · NVIDIA · DeepSeek Apoidea Group · LLaMA · LLaVA · Mistral Mixtral-MoE · Qwen3 · Qwen3-VL Qwen2.5-Omni · DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B · GLM GLM-Z1 GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking · Phi InternVL3 InternS1-mini Kimi-VL · GPT-OSS
- 2026-07-06: llama.cpp reaches #2 in GitHub LLaMA rankings with multimodal and quantization updates (GitHub AI Ranking Changes (Top 10)) · github.com — Open Source LLMs Hugging Face · NVIDIA · Apple · LLaMA · LLaMA-2 · LLaMA-3 · Mistral Mixtral-MoE DBRX Jamba Falcon · Qwen · DeepSeek · Phi · Mamba Grok-1 Command-R Granite · Olmo SmolLM ChatGLM RWKV EXAONE Baichuan
- 2026-07-06: LocalAI Enters GitHub AI Ranking at #8: Open-Source Multi-Modal Engine with Agents and RAG Support (GitHub AI Ranking Changes (Top 10)) · github.com — Open Source LLMs Agents Tool Use MCP RAG OpenAI · Anthropic · ElevenLabs · Hugging Face Ettore Di Giacinto · Llama 3.2 Phi-2
- 2026-07-06: Quivr Enters GitHub Top 10: Opinionated Python RAG Framework with Multi-LLM Support (GitHub AI Ranking Changes (Top 10)) · github.com — RAG Reranking OpenAI · Anthropic · Mistral · Groq · Cohere Megaparse · Ollama · GPT-4 · LLaMA
- 2026-07-06: Khoj Reaches #4 on GitHub AI Rankings: Open-source Personal AI with Agents and Retrieval (GitHub AI Ranking Changes (Top 10)) · github.com — Agents RAG Open Source LLMs GitHub · OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Meta · Mistral · DeepSeek · Alibaba · Llama3 · Qwen · GPT · Claude · Gemini
- 2026-07-06: ipex-llm: Intel LLM Acceleration Library Reaches Top 10 on GitHub Rankings (GitHub AI Ranking Changes (Top 10)) · github.com — Open Source LLMs Intel · Ollama HuggingFace · LangChain · LlamaIndex · vLLM DeepSpeed Axolotl FastChat Text-Generation-WebUI · AutoGen ModeScope · Microsoft · LLaMA · Mistral ChatGLM · Qwen · DeepSeek · Mixtral · Phi MiniCPM · Qwen-VL MiniCPM-V · DeepSeek-V3 · DeepSeek R1 Qwen3MoE · LLaMA-3 Gemma3 Phi-3-Vision StableDiffusion
- 2026-07-07: Gemma 4 technical report introduces an open-weight multimodal model family (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — Open Source LLMs Long Context arXiv · arXivLabs · alphaXiv · CatalyzeX · DagsHub · Gotit.pub · Hugging Face · ScienceCast · CORE · Influence Flower · Gemma 4
- 2026-07-08: Self-play can exploit reference-free LLM judges by optimizing plausibility over correctness (cs.LG updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — LLM Evals Qwen3 · Qwen · LLaMA
- 2026-07-24: Learn2Zinc fine-tunes small language models for MiniZinc text-to-model translation (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — arXiv · Qwen3 · LLaMA · GPT-OSS
- 2026-07-24: Causal stability of single-token SAE features varies by family and depth (cs.LG updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — GPT2-Small
- 2026-07-25: Open-weight models are being framed as a new platform layer (Hacker News) · tobi.knaup.me — Open Source LLMs Mesosphere Apache Mesos UC Berkeley · Kubernetes DC/OS D2iQ Rancher · Red Hat Nutanix · Hugging Face · vLLM · SGLang · llama.cpp · Ollama · MLX · Qwen TensorRT-LLM Ben Hindman
- 2026-07-25: Yann LeCun praises Gemma as a strong open-weight base for domain fine-tuning (Yann LeCun) · x.com — Open Source LLMs Yann LeCun Gemini-class models Fable-class models
FAQ
What is Gemma?
Gemma is Google’s family of open-weight models derived from the same research as Gemini, spanning compact on-device sizes to larger server variants. It anchors much of Google’s open-model strategy and has spawned specialized derivatives. GROUNDING tracks the Gemma family’s releases, variants, and ecosystem adoption.
What does this page track?
Dated radar mentions, source links, related concepts, and builder-relevant context for Gemma, collected automatically by GROUNDING.
When was Gemma last mentioned?
Gemma was most recently mentioned in a radar update dated 2026-07-25.
Category: Text / Language Models