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Hi Austin, what say you about how the Gemma rollout was handled, issues raised, and atmosphere around the office? :)

I'm not Austin, but I am Tris, the friendly neighborhood product person on Gemma. Overall, I think that the main feeling is: incredibly relieved to have had the launch go as smoothly as it has! The complexity of the launch is truly astounding:

1) Reference implementations in JAX, PyTorch, TF with Keras 3, MaxText/JAX, more...

2) Full integration at launch with HF including Transformers + optimization therein

3) TensorRT-LLM and full NVIDIA opt across the stack in partnership with that team (mentioned on the NVIDIA earnings call by Jensen, even)

4) More developer surfaces than you can shake a stick at: Kaggle, Colab, Gemma.cpp, GGUF

5) Comms landing with full coordination from Sundar + Demis + Jeff Dean, not to mention positive articles in NYT, Verge, Fortune, etc.

6) Full Google Cloud launches across several major products, including Vertex and GKE

7) Launched globally and with a permissive set of terms that enable developers to do awesome stuff

Pulling that off without any major SNAFUs is a huge relief for the team. We're excited by the potential of using all of those surfaces and the launch momentum to build a lot more great things for you all =)

I am not a fan of a lot of what Google does, but congratulations! That’s a massive undertaking and it is bringing the field forward. I am glad you could do this, and hope you’ll have many other successful releases.

Now, I’m off playing with a new toy :)

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