Google's Open Source Model Gemma 4 Likely to Be Released Soon, DeepMind CEO and Team Members Hint

AirdropBlackHole · 2026-04-02T05:21:26+00:00

Recent posts by Google DeepMind's CEO and a technical team member hint at the imminent release of the open-source model Gemma 4, following signs of a leak from an anonymous model claiming to be it. The prior version, Gemma 3, was well-received in the community.

AirdropBlackHole

2026-04-02 05:21:26

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According to monitoring by 1M AI News, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis posted four diamond emojis (???) on X, while Logan Kilpatrick, a member of Google’s technical team and head of Google AI Studio and Gemini API, earlier posted just the word “Gemma.” The simultaneous posts by both individuals are widely interpreted as a signal that Google’s open-source model Gemma 4 is about to be released. There have been previous signs of a leak. An anonymous model codenamed “significant-otter” appeared on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, claiming in response to user inquiries, “I am Gemma 4, a large language model developed by Google DeepMind.” Users in the Reddit community r/LocalLLaMA reported that this model has a fast response time, does not belong to the inference model category, and has passed commonly used basic capability tests in the community. Google has not yet officially announced Gemma 4. The previous version, Gemma 3, is a lightweight model family aimed at the open-source community, supporting single GPU or TPU operation, with multilingual, multimodal, and long-context capabilities, and has received positive feedback within the open-source community.

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