Google's Gemma collection of AI models has surpassed 150 million downloads, with over 70,000 variants created by developers on Hugging Face.
Launched in February 2024, Gemma competes with other open model families like Meta's Llama, offering multimodal capabilities supporting over 100 languages.
Despite its success, Gemma still trails behind Llama, which has over 1.2 billion downloads.
Both Gemma and Llama have faced criticism for custom licensing terms, posing challenges for commercial use.