# Google Releases Gemma 3 270M for On-Device AI

> The new ultra-compact model from DeepMind is designed for efficient performance in resource-constrained environments like mobile and web.

Published by The Open Weights on Aug 5, 2025. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/gemma-3-270m-2gln

## Key facts

- Company: Google DeepMind
- Model: Gemma 3 270M
- Version: 3-270m
- Category: Text / LLM
- Modalities: Text / LLM
- License: Gemma (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Parameters: 270M
- Context window: 33K tokens
- Architecture: Gemma3ForCausalLM
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 0.5 GB
- Significance: notable
- Published: 2025-08-05
- Last verified: 2026-06-17
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-270m
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/gemma-3-270m-2gln

Google DeepMind has expanded its Gemma 3 family with a new, ultra-compact model: Gemma 3 270M. This latest release focuses on bringing capable language model performance to resource-constrained environments where computational power and memory are limited.

At just 270 million parameters, the model is significantly smaller than its multi-billion parameter counterparts. This small footprint makes it a strong candidate for running directly on devices like smartphones, laptops, and web browsers, enabling applications that can operate offline and without relying on cloud-based APIs.

Despite its size, Gemma 3 270M features a modern architecture and a substantial 32,768-token context window. Google positions the model as an ideal, cost-effective base for developers and researchers looking to experiment with fine-tuning for specialized tasks.

The model is available now on Hugging Face under the custom [Gemma license](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-270m). This release continues Google's strategy of providing a range of open models to cater to different scales of development, from large-scale research to local, privacy-preserving applications.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-270m)

## Sources

- [google/gemma-3-270m](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-270m) — Hugging Face, Aug 5, 2025

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