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by azinman2 78 days ago
How do the smaller models differ from what you guys will ultimately ship on Pixel phones?

What's the business case for releasing Gemma and not just focusing on Gemini + cloud only?

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Its hard to say because Pixel comes prepacked with a lot of models, not just ones that that are text output models.

With the caveat that I'm not on the pixel team and I'm not building _all_ the models that are on google's devices, its evident there are many models that support the Android experience. For example the one mentioned here

https://store.google.com/us/magazine/magic-editor?hl=en-US&p...

Yes of course, but I imagine there's only one main LLM on the device. Otherwise it's a waste of space to have multiple multi-gigabyte models that you then have to load into memory.