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

MeNews · 2026-04-12T10:41:55+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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2026-04-12 10:41:55

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ME News, April 2 (UTC+8): Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis posted four diamond emojis (💎💎💎💎) on X. Earlier, Logan Kilpatrick, a member of Google’s technical team, and the head of Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, posted only one word: “Gemma”. The two posts were made nearly simultaneously, and have been 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. On the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, an anonymous model with the codename “significant-otter” appeared; when users pressed it 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 an inference model, and has passed the community’s commonly used baseline capability tests.

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

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