In brief Google dropped Gemma 4, a family of open models under the Apache 2.0 license. The four-model lineup spans phones to data centers with the 31B model ranking #3 globally already. U.S. open-source AI gets a needed boost, as Gemma 4—backed by DeepMind—positions itself as the strongest American contender against DeepSeek, Qwen, and other Chinese leaders. Google's open AI ambitions got a lot more serious today. The company released Gemma 4, a family of four open-weight models built on the same research as Gemini 3, and licensed under Apache 2.0—a significant departure from the more restrictive terms on previous...