Google DeepMind

Industry leader Open-weight and challenger labsupdated 27 Oct 2026

The strongest open small-model family from a US lab.

What it offers

Main offerings
Gemma 4
Sizes from 2B-class edge models to 31B. Multimodal, Apache 2.0, runs on-device.

Recent news

  • Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal embedding modelThe Gemma family extends into embeddings under Apache 2.0.AI Weekly ↗
  • Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0, from 2B to 31BBuilt from Gemini 3 research, with strong performance for its size and 256K multimodal contextGoogle Blog ↗
  • Gemma 4 comes to Android through the AICore developer previewMakes Gemma the default local agent model on Android devicesAndroid Developers Blog ↗

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