Google's open-source model Gemma 4 is suspected to be imminent, with DeepMind CEO and team members hinting in sync.

MeNews · 2026-04-02T06:40:18+00:00

Google DeepMind CEO releases diamond emoji and the word "Gemma," hinting that the open-source model Gemma 4 is coming soon. Previously, an anonymous model "significant-otter" claimed to be Gemma 4 and received positive feedback on its performance. Google has not officially announced the model yet.

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2026-04-02 06:40:18

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ME News update: On April 2 (UTC+8), Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis posted four diamond emojis (💎💎💎💎) on X. Earlier, Logan Kilpatrick, a member of the Google technical team and the head of Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, posted only one word: “Gemma”. The two posted almost simultaneously, which has been widely interpreted as a sign that Google’s open-source model Gemma 4 is about to be released.

There have been indications of leaks beforehand. On LMSYS Chatbot Arena, an anonymous model code-named “significant-otter” appeared. When users pressed for its identity, it claimed, “I am Gemma 4, a large language model developed by Google DeepMind.” Users in the Reddit community r/LocalLLaMA reported that the model responds quickly, is not a reasoning model, and passed the community’s commonly used baseline ability tests.

Google has not yet officially announced Gemma 4. The predecessor, Gemma 3, is a lightweight model family from Google for the open-source community. It supports running on a single GPU or TPU, and has multi-language, multimodal, and long-context capabilities, with a strong reputation in the open-source community. (Source: X platform)

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