Google releases Gemma 2
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Released Gemma 2 (9B and 27B) under the Gemma license; the 27B runs full-precision inference on a single NVIDIA H100 or A100 80GB GPU or a TPU host
Why it matters
The second Gemma generation; Google claimed the 27B competes with models more than twice its size and the 9B outperforms Llama 3 8B
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Officialblog.googlehttps://blog.google/technology/developers/google-gemma-2/Added in Week 41, 2026 · See that week
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