Gemma 3 270M: A Tiny but Mighty AI Model for Custom Applications

The Gemma family welcomes its newest member: Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270-million parameter AI model designed for task-specific fine-tuning. Inheriting the advanced architecture of the Gemma 3 series, it boasts strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities, while consuming remarkably low power—just 0.75% battery usage for 25 conversations on a Pixel 9 Pro SoC. Its impressive instruction-following abilities shine in IFEval benchmarks, making advanced AI more accessible for on-device and research applications. Gemma 3 270M excels in high-volume, well-defined tasks like sentiment analysis and entity extraction and is ideal for scenarios requiring rapid iteration and deployment. Developers can leverage its small size for quick fine-tuning experiments, building fleets of specialized models to create efficient and cost-effective production systems.