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Gemma vs Gemini?

I am only a casual AI chatbot user, I use what gives me the most and best free limits and versions.

Gemma will give you the most, Gemini will give you the best. The former is much smaller and therefore cheaper to run, but less capable.

Although I'm not sure whether Gemma will be available even in aistudio - they took the last one down after people got it to say/do questionable stuff. It's very much intended for self-hosting.

Well specifically a congressperson got it to hallucinate stuff about them then wrote an agry letter

But I checked and it's there... but in the UI web search can't be disabled (presumably to avoid another egg on face situation)

Gemma is only 10s of billion parameters, Gemini is 100s.

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