Google's open-source AI Gemma 4 surpasses 200 million downloads in 2.5 months

Innovation & Technology, Technology

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (NPA) — Google DeepMind has announced that its Gemma 4 family of open artificial intelligence models has surpassed 200 million downloads just two and a half months after launch, highlighting growing adoption by developers, researchers and startups worldwide.

The milestone was announced on Thursday by Olivier Lacombe, Google DeepMind’s Product Director and lead for Gemma and Gemini on-device, who described the achievement as a major endorsement of the company’s open AI strategy.

“Gemma 4 just hit 200 million downloads in only 2.5 months,” Lacombe said.

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He noted that total downloads across the entire Gemma family stood at 100 million when Gemma 3 was launched, indicating a sharp acceleration in adoption following the release of Gemma 4.

“The community’s acceleration is incredible. Thank you to everyone building with Gemma,” he added.

Reflecting on the milestone, Lacombe said Google DeepMind created Gemma to make the research behind its Gemini models more accessible to the global open-source community.

“When we built Gemma, our goal was to bring Google’s Gemini research to the open-science community in an accessible and highly capable package. Seeing this milestone today is both humbling and exhilarating,” he said.

According to him, developers are deploying Gemma in a wide range of real-world applications, from lightweight AI agents to satellite-based technologies.

Lacombe reaffirmed Google DeepMind’s commitment to open science and developer choice, describing Gemma 4 as another step in expanding access to advanced AI technologies.

“At Google DeepMind, our commitment to open science and developer choice remains unwavering. Gemma 4 is just one step in this journey, and we are excited to keep iterating alongside you,” he said.

He thanked developers, researchers and organisations that have downloaded, fine-tuned and built applications using the models, promising more innovations in the future.

Gemma is Google’s family of lightweight, open AI models developed by Google DeepMind and built on the technology that powers its Gemini artificial intelligence platform.