According to Odaily Planet Daily, Google announced the release of Gemma 2 major language models for researchers and developers around the world. Available in 9 billion and 27 billion parameter sizes, Gemma 2 offers higher performance and more efficient inference than the first generation, and has significant security improvements built in. Google said that the performance of Gemma 2 27B is more competitive than similar products that are twice its size; the performance of 9B is also at the leading level of similar products, better than Llama 3 8B and other open models.