Google's Gemma: A Lightweight Multimodal Model Family
2025-03-12
Google unveiled Gemma, a lightweight family of multimodal models built on Gemini technology. Gemma 3 models process text and images, boast a 128K context window, and support over 140 languages. Available in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes, they excel at question answering, summarization, and reasoning, while their compact design enables deployment on resource-constrained devices. Benchmark results demonstrate strong performance across various tasks, particularly in multilingual and multimodal capabilities.