Google Gemma AI Model Reaches 150 Million Downloads

JAKARTA Google announced the important achievements of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) model they developed. After releasing Gemma 3 last March, the number of downloads has increased.

Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind Developer Relations Engineer, said in a post on X that Gemma had been downloaded 150 million times. The number of Gemma on the AI Hugging Face platform has also continued to grow in recent months.

"Gemma has just surpassed 150 million downloads and more than 70 thousand variants on Hugging Face," Omar said on May 12. This announcement reveals that Gemma's model is quite reliable by developers.

Gemma is an open-source AI model that first launched in February last year. The model is designed to compete with other open-source AIs such as Meta-made Llama although the features offered are not much different.

This AI model from Google continues to develop. At the last launch of Gemma, namely Gemma 3, the AI model is multi-modal or able to work with various needs, both text and images.

Gemma supports more than 100 languages and Google has made up several versions of the open-source AI model, such as Gemma specifically for drug discovery. Even so, Gemma is still a little behind the Llama.

The addition of 140 million downloads within a year is an amazing number, but it's still far from the Llama. The AI model from Meta actually surpassed 1.2 billion downloads in April.

If it continues to be developed, Gemma could be much superior to Llama. However, until now, Google still needs to increase Gemma, especially after the AI model has been criticized for its license that doesn't match the standard, so it's risky for developers.