# Hugging Face — Google releases Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma and Gemma Scope

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-07-31T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma, Gemma Scope
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma-july-update
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1845-google-releases-gemma-2-2b-shieldgemma-and-gemma-scope

Google has released three new Gemma model variants: Gemma 2 2B (a 2.6B parameter small model), ShieldGemma (safety classifiers), and Gemma Scope (sparse autoencoders for Gemma 2 2B and 9B).

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma-july-update:

> One month after the release of Gemma 2, Google has expanded their set of Gemma models to include the following new additions: Gemma 2 2B - The 2.6B parameter version of Gemma 2, making it a great candidate for on-device use. ShieldGemma - A series of safety classifiers, trained on top of Gemma 2, for developers to filter inputs and outputs of their applications. Gemma Scope - A comprehensive, open suite of sparse autoencoders for Gemma 2 2B and 9B.

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