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Gemma

A collection of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same technology that powers our Gemini models

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Models

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM

Our most advanced open models help developers create AI applications that run wherever users need them — from workstations to laptops and even phones.

Model family

Performance and benchmarks

Official variants

We’re exploring applications for Gemma as a code generator, in healthcare support roles, and even as a research tool in the animal kingdom.

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Supported by popular frameworks and platforms.

Hugging Face Transformers

Keras

Ollama

PyTorch

Gemma.cpp

JAX

MediaPipe

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Gemma Cookbook

A GitHub repository, collecting quickstart guides and code examples.

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Developer events

Revisit past Developer Days, I/O sessions and other events where we’ve shared updates, and highlighted new opportunities for developers using our open models.

Building intelligent agents with Gemma 3

Explore the development of intelligent agents using Gemma models, with core components that facilitate agent creation, including capabilities for function calling, planning, and reasoning.

Welcome to Gemma 3

Discover the latest advancements in Gemma, Google's family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models.

Deepdive into Gemma 3

Hear how the Gemma research team unveil the architecture, design principles, and innovations behind Google's family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models.

A truly multilingual Gemma 3

Building multilingual AI applications is crucial for reaching global audiences, and varied language proficiency remains a top developer priority.

Explore the Gemmaverse

A vast ecosystem of community-created Gemma models and tools, ready to spark imagination and power innovation.

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ShieldGemma 2

ShieldGemma 2

A suite of safety content classifier models built on Gemma 2 and designed to detect harmful content in AI models’ text inputs and outputs

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Download ShieldGemma 2

Instruction-tuned models for evaluating the safety of text and images against pre-defined safety policies. Helps evaluate and prevent generative AI applications from violating safety policies.

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Model versions

  • ShieldGemma 1

    Built on Gemma 2 and available in 2B, 9B, and 27B parameter sizes.

  • ShieldGemma 2

    A 4B parameter image safety model built on Gemma 3.

Capabilities

  • Content safety evaluation

    Evaluate the safety of prompt input and output responses against a set of defined safety policies.

  • Tuneable, open models

    ShieldGemma models are provided with open weights and can be fine-tuned for your specific use case.

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