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First Gemini, now Gemma: Google's new, open AI models target developers

Google's latest AI offering is an 'open model' but not 'open-sourced.' Here's why that difference matters.

GoogleJust when you thought Google might slow down its pace of AI releases, the company has another trick up its sleeve. It is worth highlighting that Gemma is an "open model" and not "open-sourced" -- and that minor terminology variant refers to a rather significant difference. Google implemented other safeguards in Gemma to ensure safe and reliable usage, including automated techniques to screen out personal information and sensitive data from training sets, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to ensure that the models behave responsibly, and robust model evaluations.

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