Gemma 2 is now available to researchers and developers
Gemma 2 is now available to researchers and developers
Gemma 2, our next generation of open models, is now available globally for researchers and developers.
Context: Gemma is a group of free-to-use AI models with a focus on being small. According to benchmarks this outperforms Llama 3.
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Just to be clear, Gemma is only partially open sourced in select area's of the code.
17 3 Replyhow are the weights partially open?
4 0 ReplyOnly portions of the code are published while the rest is kept under wraps. Classic corporate America bs finding a loop hole to use a trendy term.
4 2 Replyneural network weights are just files, collections of numbers forming matrices; how is a partially open collection of weights of any use
the weights are open
$ docker exec -it ollama ollama show gemma:7b Model arch gemma parameters 9B quantization Q4_0 context length 8192 embedding length 3072 Parameters stop "<start_of_turn>" stop "<end_of_turn>" penalize_newline false repeat_penalty 1 License Gemma Terms of Use Last modified: February 21, 2024
2 0 ReplySince there is a user acceptance policy that restricts what you can do with the model that might be considered "partially" open.
Yeah you can see the weights, but it seems you are limited on what you can do with the weights. How we've gotten to the point you can protect these random numbers that I've shared with you through a UA is beyond me.
3 0 Replythe same happens with BloomZ, and that is listed as open
4 0 ReplyWasn't aware of that, I was just taking a guess.
That being said I wouldn't consider either open given those restrictions.
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