Google on Wednesday launched its latest open-source models called Gemma 3 which can run on a single graphics processing unit or tensor processing unit. The Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit said Gemma 3 is a collection of lightweight,

With this technical design, Google said Gemma 3 is capable of delivering high performance for its size, outperforming larger models such as Llama-405B, DeepSeek-V3 and OpenAI’s o3-mini in preliminary human preference evaluations on the LMArena leaderboard.

Google says its new Gemma 3 AI model can tackle more challenges while using just one GPU. Emilia David, senior AI reporter for VentureBeat, joined CBS News to discuss the new product.

Google claims that Gemma 3 is the "world's best single-accelerator model," outperforming competitors such as Facebook's Llama and OpenAI when running on a host with a single GPU.

Dubbed the “world’s best single-accelerator model” to date, Gemma 3 joins the Gemmaverse as Google’s latest open model to be released to the public.

Google claims Gemma 3 will be able to tackle more challenging tasks compared to the older open Google models. The context window, a measure of how much data you can input, has been expanded to 128,000 from 8,

Gemma 3 supports vision-language inputs and text outputs, handles context windows up to 128k tokens, and understands more than 140 languages.