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

MeNews · 2026-04-12T05:23:40+00:00

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

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2026-04-12 05:23:40

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ME News Report, April 2nd (UTC+8), Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis posted four diamond emojis (💎💎💎💎) on X. Google AI Studio and Gemini API lead Logan Kilpatrick, a member of the technical team, earlier posted only one word, “Gemma.” The two posts were made almost simultaneously and are widely interpreted as a signal that Google’s open-source model Gemma 4 is about to be released.

Signs of a leak had appeared earlier. An anonymous model with the codename “significant-otter” appeared on LMSYS Chatbot Arena, claiming when asked about its identity, “I am Gemma 4, a large language model developed by Google DeepMind.” Reddit community r/LocalLLaMA users reported that this model responds quickly, is not an inference model, and has passed common basic ability tests used by the community.

Google has not officially announced Gemma 4 yet. The previous Gemma 3 was a lightweight family of models aimed at the open-source community, supporting single GPU or TPU operation, with multilingual, multimodal, and long-context capabilities, and has a good reputation in the open-source community. (Source: X platform)

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