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Saturday, April 4, 2026

AI Daily

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Open Source

Google's Gemma 4 Puts Frontier-Class AI in Your Pocket

Google's Gemma 4 family tops the open-model leaderboards while running entirely offline on a phone or Raspberry Pi. The 26B Mixture of Experts model activates just 3.8B parameters at inference, reaching near-top performance at a fraction of the compute. Frontier AI is becoming a commodity, and the business models built on scarcity are running out of runway.

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Opinion — Peter Harrison
Opinion

When the Model Is Free, the Displacement Is Too

OpenAI was named for a reason. The early AI research culture was built on shared papers, open weights, and genuine idealism. Then came the capital, the competition, and the enclosure. What Google and Meta now call "open source" is a corporate strategy, not an ethos. The commons the idealists built is being used to drive down the last cost barrier to mass displacement, and nobody quite intended it to end up here.

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