Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones - ZDNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Now open-source under Apache 2.0, Gemma 4 brings offline, multimodal AI to servers, phones, and Raspberry Pi - giving developers total local control over edge and on-premises deployments. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Google announced today that its DeepMind AI research division is releasing Gemma 4, its latest generation of open large language models. The models are being released under the Apache 2.0 license, making them truly open source compared to the permissive but still controlled license of earlier Gemma generations. Gemma is an LLM like Gemini. But here, we’re talking about the AI processing engine, not the chatbot interface. Both Gemma and Gemini were developed using the same research and technology. The difference is that Gemini is a subscription-based closed product, whereas Gemma is an open model that can be downloaded and run locally for free. The ability to run an AI model locally without a fee benefits a variety of applications. There are plenty of folks who want to run AI at home, without relying on the cloud, and for free