# Gemma 3

Gemma 3 is an AI model released by Google on Mar 12 2025. It has open weight.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Model | Gemma 3 |
| Developer | Google |
| Release date | Wednesday, Mar 12 2025 |
| Licensing | Open Weight |

## About Gemma 3

Gemma 3, released March 12, 2025, is Google's open-weight family distilled from Gemini technology, spanning roughly 1B to 27B parameters with vision support and a 128K context window on the larger sizes. Its design target was practical: state-of-the-art quality for a model that runs on a single GPU or TPU.

The 27B variant punched far above its weight on human-preference leaderboards, rivalling much larger open models, and the family's permissive terms and small-hardware footprint made it a staple for on-device and self-hosted deployments. Gemma 4 continued the line in April 2026.

## Questions and answers

### When was Gemma 3 released?

Gemma 3 was released by Google on Wednesday, Mar 12 2025.

### Who made Gemma 3?

Gemma 3 was built by Google. Builds the Gemini family of models through Google DeepMind. Integrates AI across Google products.

### Is Gemma 3 open source?

Partly. Gemma 3 is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.

### What came before and after Gemma 3?

Google's previous tracked release was Gemini 2.0 Pro on Feb 5 2025, 35 days earlier. It was followed by Gemini 2.5 Pro on Mar 25 2025.


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