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tyushklast Thursday at 5:27 PM1 replyview on HN

Licensing. You can't use Gemini Nano weights directly (at least commercial ly) and must interact with them through Android MLKit or similar Google approved runtimes.

You can use Gemma commercially using whatever runtime or framework you can get to run it.


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littlestymaarlast Thursday at 7:00 PM

It's not even clear you can license language model weight though.

I'm not a lawyer but the analysis I've read had a pretty strong argument that there's no human creativity involved in the training, which is an entirely automatic process, and as such it cannot be copyrighted in any way (the same way you cannot put a license on a software artifact just because you compiled it yourself, you must have copyright ownership on the source code you're compiling).

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