Welcome Gemma 3: Google's all new multimodal, multilingual, long context open LLM
What changed
Today Google releases Gemma 3, a new iteration of their Gemma family of models. The models range from 1B to 27B parameters, have a context window up to 128k tokens, can accept images and text, and support 140+ languages. Both pre-trained and instruction tuned models are released.
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- Welcome Gemma 2 - Google’s new open LLM
- Welcome Gemma - Google’s new open LLM
- Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
Sources
- Welcome Gemma 3: Google's all new multimodal, multilingual, long context open LLM (huggingface-blog)primary