Google’s Gemma models passed 150M downloads and 70K+ variants on Hugging Face, after launching in Feb. 2024; Meta’s Llama models passed 1.2B downloads in April (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

by #AI [2.0] May 12, 2025 · Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google’s Gemma models passed 150M downloads and 70K+ variants on Hugging Face, after launching in Feb. 2024; Meta’s Llama models passed 1.2B downloads in April — Google’s openly available Gemma collection of AI models has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads.