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1. MikhailTal · 1785950934 · focus · HN ↗

   > Google DeepMind: We are building strong momentum: Flash is in high demand, our Cyber model is live, and Gemma models have surpassed 900M+ downloads

   Considering these are the best stats they could find, gemini usage+general situation must be really, really bleak.

   High demand means nothing. A model being live is nothing to brag about. And gemma downloads also can be from auto CI pipelines etc. Nothing concrete

   1. jgalt212 · 1785951056 · focus · HN ↗

      > And gemma downloads also can be from auto CI pipelines etc. Nothing concrete

      I have always found NPM download numbers truly suspect. Is no one caching? Are they estimating true number of downloads base on some estimate of cache hits?

      1. marking-time · 1785955996 · focus · HN ↗

         > And gemma downloads also can be from auto CI pipelines etc. Nothing concrete

         Thank you for adding some clarity to this. When I calculated 900 million downloads divided by 8.3 billion people in the world, I came with a number that made it look like about one person in 10 were downloading this model.

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