Google's open-source AI model Gemma has been downloaded over 150 million times and has more than 70,000 variants on Hugging Face.
Gemma, a series of lightweight, open-source models, was introduced by Google in February last year, aiming for a more efficient and portable AI solution.
These smaller Gemma models have been proven to excel in reasoning, math, and programming skills compared to larger models like Meta's Llama-2.
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