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  Sovereign Escape Velocity: Ownership w Open Models — Gus Martins, & Ian
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  Gemma 4's 31B model sits fourth on the LM Arena open model leaderboard. The
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  despite having more parameters), deploying a medical variant on two GPUs for
  an entire hospital, and running parallel multi agent workloads on an M4 Mac
  via LM Studio. The talk also covers the license shift from a custom Gemma
  license to Apache 2.0 — the practical effect is that sovereign institutions in
  Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Brazil can get legal sign off without 18 months of
  procurement review. Speaker info: - https://x.com/gusthema -
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/gus-martins-64ab5891 -
  https://linkedin.com/in/ianballantyne - https://github.com/irbg
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# Sovereign Escape Velocity: Ownership w Open Models — Gus Martins, & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind

Gemma 4's 31B model sits fourth on the LM Arena open model leaderboard. The models around it are at least twice as large; some are 20 times larger. It runs on a single GPU. Competitors at comparable quality need four or five. Ian Ballantyne and Gus Martins walk through what that size efficiency unlocks: running on a Pixel phone (the E2B and E4B models use 2B and 4B of GPU memory despite having more parameters), deploying a medical variant on two GPUs for an entire hospital, and running parallel multi agent workloads on an M4 Mac via LM Studio. The talk also covers the license shift from a custom Gemma license to Apache 2.0 — the practical effect is that sovereign institutions in Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Brazil can get legal sign off without 18 months of procurement review. Speaker info: - https://x.com/gusthema - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gus-martins-64ab5891 - https://linkedin.com/in/ianballantyne - https://github.com/irbg

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