Gemma 1

Gemma 1 focuses on practicality and access. The models are compact enough for local or cost-sensitive serving, yet strong on everyday reasoning, summarization, and code assistants when instruction-tuned. They produce stable, schema-friendly outputs for pipelines that expect JSON or function calls, and they hold multi-turn context reliably for typical chats and document work. Because weights are openly available under a permissive license, teams can quantize for edge devices, fine-tune with small domain datasets, and integrate with retrieval to ground answers. In practice, Gemma 1 is a solid base for self-hosted copilots, support bots, and lightweight developer helpers where speed, control, and predictable costs matter more than frontier scale.