Sovereign Escape Velocity: Ownership w Open Models — Gus Martins, & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a new family of open models in four sizes.
“In some situations, you want to own the model. You want to be able to run on your own hardware.”
Google DeepMind announced Gemma 4, a new family of open-weight models in four sizes, including E2B and E4B variants that use 'effective parameter' memory footprints smaller than their true parameter count. The pitch is ownership and control: open models let teams run on their own hardware, customize, and keep proprietary data in-house, complementing the closed Gemini line for sovereignty and on-prem use cases.