Google's open-source model Gemma 4 is suspected to be imminent, with DeepMind CEO and team members hinting in sync.

MeNews · 2026-04-12T03:28:55+00:00

Google DeepMind CEO releases diamond emoji and the word "Gemma," hinting that the open-source model Gemma 4 is imminent. Previously, an anonymous model "significant-otter" claimed to be Gemma 4 and received feedback indicating excellent performance. Google has not officially announced the model yet.

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2026-04-12 03:28:55

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ME News Report, April 2nd (UTC+8), Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis posted four diamond emojis (💎💎💎💎) on X. Earlier, Logan Kilpatrick, a member of Google’s technical team and head of Google AI Studio and Gemini API, posted only one word, “Gemma.” The two posts were made almost simultaneously and are widely interpreted as a signal that Google’s open-source model Gemma 4 is about to be released.

Signs of a leak had appeared earlier. An anonymous model with the codename “significant-otter” appeared on LMSYS Chatbot Arena, and when asked about its identity, it claimed, “I am Gemma 4, a large language model developed by Google DeepMind.” Reddit community r/LocalLLaMA users reported that this model responds quickly, is not an inference model, and has passed common basic ability tests used by the community.

Google has not officially announced Gemma 4 yet. The previous Gemma 3 was a lightweight family of models aimed at the open-source community, supporting single GPU or TPU operation, with multilingual, multimodal, and long-context capabilities, and has a good reputation in the open-source community. (Source: X platform)

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