The Sequence #706: Tiny, Long, and Quantized: A Deep Dive into Gemma 3 270M
How Google built one of the most impressive small AI models ever created.
Small models is a trend that regularly captures the imagination of the AI community. How much intelligence can be capture in a few billion parameters might determine the speed at which industries like robotics evolve over the next few years. Last week, we had a great example of the possiblities of small models with the release of Gemma 3 270M by Google DeepMind.
Google’s Gemma 3 270M is a small language model that prioritizes deployability and specialization over brute‑force capability.