After China’s DeepSeek set the AI world alight with lightweight models that can provide pretty strong performance on relatively low-cost equipment like phones, Google wants developers to know it’s still in the game.

Google has introduced Gemma 3, a collection of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology that powers our Gemini 2.0 models

Dubbed the “world’s best single-accelerator model” to date, Gemma 3 joins the Gemmaverse as Google’s latest open model to be released to the public.

Google claims that Gemma 3 is the "world's best single-accelerator model," outperforming competitors such as Facebook's Llama and OpenAI when running on a host with a single GPU.

Gemma 3 shares tech with Gemini 2.0, supports 35 languages, and offers models with up to 27B parameters. It can be trained through Vertex AI and Google Colab, and it includes a safety image checker called ShieldGemma 2.