Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones

Now open-source under Apache 2.0, Gemma 4 brings offline, multimodal AI to servers, phones, and Raspberry Pi - giving developers total local control over edge and on-premises deployments.

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Gemma 4 is now fully open-source under Apache 2.0.
• Local AI enables privacy, offline use, and lower costs.
• From servers to smartphones, deployment just got much easier.

Google announced today that its DeepMind AI research division is releasing Gemma 4, its latest generation of open large language models. The models are being released under the Apache 2.0 license, making them truly open source compared to the permissive but still controlled license of earlier Gemma generations.

What is Gemma?

Gemma is an LLM like Gemini. But here, we're talking about the AI processing engine, not the chatbot interface. Both Gemma and Gemini ...