Google doesn't love us anymore.
The open-source AI community feels abandoned as Google's silence on Gemma grows.
Deep Dive
The AI community is expressing frustration over Google's apparent abandonment of its Gemma family of open-source models. Users lament the lack of new releases for over four months (125 days), contrasting it with rival offerings like Qwen. The post, which has gone viral, specifically pleads for a "Gemma 4" model, praising the series for its creative outputs and useful parameter sizes that filled a specific niche in the open-source ecosystem.
Why It Matters
Google's silence risks ceding the competitive open-source model space to rivals, alienating a key developer community.