[AINews] Gemma 4 crosses 2 million downloads

Google’s Gemma 4 reached about 2 million downloads in its first week. The post compares that with Gemma 3 at 6.7 million over the past year, Gemma 2 at 1.4 million since June 2024, and Qwen 3.5 at about 27 million in roughly 1.5 months. The signal for practitioners is local deployment: one iPhone 17 Pro demo ran Gemma 4 E2B at about 40 tok/s via MLX, with support across Hugging Face, vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, and NVIDIA.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the story has a clean hook, concrete comparative download data, and a real open-model adoption nerve. It stays low-featured because this is a secondary-source uptake snapshot, not a primary Google release or a substantive capability update.