# Google releases Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma and Gemma Scope

DevFeed: [Google releases Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma and Gemma Scope](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/google-releases-gemma-2-2b-shieldgemma-and-gemma-scope-7210.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma-july-update>)

Author: Joshua; Pedro Cuenca; Vaibhav Srivastav; Joao Gante

Published: 2024-07-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>)

Tags: [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [gcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcp.md>), [gemma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemma.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language-models.md>), [large-language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/large-language-models.md>), [llama-cpp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llama-cpp.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [nlp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nlp.md>), [on-device](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-device.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformers.md>)

## AI overview

Google released Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma safety classifiers, and Gemma Scope sparse autoencoders. The article also describes running Gemma 2 locally with Transformers and llama.cpp.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.