LLM Model Families at a Glance
Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama & co. — who builds what, where each family shines, and how to pick the right model for your own use case.
Martin Rau
Gemma
in AI Models
Google's open Gemma model family — compact, freely downloadable models built on Gemini technology, made for self-hosting, on-device, and edge use.
Glossary
Gemma 3 Gemma
Gemma 3 is Googles family of open models released in March 2025. It comes in four sizes (1B, 4B, 12B, 27B), is multimodal from 4B upward, supports over 140 languages and offers a context window of up to 128,000 tokens.
Gemma 3n Gemma
Google's open, mobile-first AI model, available in preview from May 2025 and fully from 26 June 2025. Multimodal (text, image, audio, video), optimised for on-device use; open weights in the E2B and E4B sizes.
Gemma 4 Gemma
Gemma 4 is Google DeepMind's open model family from April 2026 — four sizes (E2B to 31B), 256k context, multimodal, Apache 2.0 licensed.