It all started a little way back with LLaMA and then the outstanding LLaMA 2 the Large Language Model from Google that was released as a platform in open source for others to build on.
Now Google is well and truly back in the opensource LLM world with its new model Gemma!
Gemma has been trained on 6 million tokens compared to LLaMA 2's 4 million.
Gemma has been released with 4 new models.
The Base Models
Firstly a base model with a 7 billion or 2 billion parameters model. variants