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Gemma 3: Google's Open Multimodal Model with Long Context & Vision

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Cover image from Google Blog. Google DeepMind has officially introduced Gemma 3, the latest iteration of its open-source language model series. Th...
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wow, this benchmark is crazy. from what i heard it is about gemini-1.5 level but open source?

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Yep, the model has performance near gemini-1.5 I think, and it can run easily on a single GPU, which is a great advantage for local models!
I ran the 1 billion parameter model on my laptop at about 20 TPS (my laptop is weak) and for a 1b model is does really good.

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Rob Benzo

1 billion sounds really big lol, idk if i can run that

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1b is actually fairly small. 70b is really large, and 671b is massive (for example, DeepSeek or ChatGPT).

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ok, maybe i will try it :D

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Awesome! I'd recommend Ollama for running it.
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It makes it pretty easy to run it in your terminal.

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will do

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Curious what you all think!

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good post :)

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Thank you! ❤️

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nadeem zia

The information is good

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Awesome, thanks for reading 🙌