Google has expanded its Gemma 3 open model family with Gemma 3 270M — a lightweight 270-million parameter model built for hyper-efficient, task-specific fine-tuning. While not aimed at complex conversations, it delivers exceptional instruction-following, structured text output, and performance efficiency, making it ideal for on-device AI and specialized production workloads.

Download the Gemma 3 270M models from Hugging Face, Ollama, Kaggle, LM Studio, or Docker.

This launch follows the success of Gemma 3, Gemma 3 QAT, and Gemma 3n, as downloads across the “Gemmaverse” surpassed 200 million last week.

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Key Features of Gemma 3 270M

• Compact but Capable:

  • 270M parameters — 170M for embeddings (256K vocabulary) + 100M for transformer blocks.

  • Handles rare tokens and domain-specific terms with ease.

• Extreme Energy Efficiency:

  • INT4-quantized model consumed just 0.75% battery for 25 conversations on a Pixel 9 Pro SoC.

  • Ideal for resource-constrained devices and low-power deployments.

• Instruction Following:

  • Pre-trained and instruction-tuned checkpoints available.

  • Strong out-of-the-box adherence to general instructions.

• Production-Ready Quantization:

  • Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) for INT4 precision with minimal performance loss.

Why Choose Gemma 3 270M

• High-Volume, Defined Tasks: Perfect for sentiment analysis, entity extraction, compliance checks, and text-to-structure processing.

• Ultra-Low Inference Costs: Run on lightweight infrastructure or entirely on-device.

• Rapid Fine-Tuning: Smaller size means faster experiments — hours instead of days.

• Privacy-First AI: Process sensitive data locally without cloud transfer.

• Specialized Model Fleets: Deploy multiple fine-tuned models for different use cases without breaking the budget.

Real-World Applications

The specialization-first approach has already proven effective. Adaptive ML and SK Telecom fine-tuned a Gemma 3 4B model for multilingual content moderation, outperforming much larger proprietary models on the task.

For creative applications, developers like Joshua (@xenovacom) from Hugging Face have used Gemma 3 270M to power offline web apps such as a Bedtime Story Generator using Transformers.js — demonstrating its potential for fast, private, and interactive experiences.

Availability

Gemma 3 270M is available now for developers to download, fine-tune, and integrate into custom AI workflows.

Try the models on Vertex AI or with popular inference tools like llama.cpp Gemma.cpp, LiteRT, Keras, and MLX.