Google’s open-source AI model, Gemma, has now been downloaded over 150 million times. Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind, which is part of Alphabet (GOOGL), announced the news on X. He also said that developers have created more than 70,000 different versions of Gemma on the Hugging Face platform. Gemma was first released in February 2024 as Google’s answer to other open-source AI models like Meta’s (META) Llama. Furthermore, Google introduced Gemma 3 in March, which can run on just one GPU or TPU and make it easier for developers to use.
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While Gemma’s download growth has been strong, Meta’s Llama still leads with 1 billion downloads as of March. Nevertheless, Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has also grown quickly. Indeed, documents from the ongoing antitrust trial in Washington, D.C. show that Gemini’s daily active users jumped from 9 million in October 2024 to 35 million by March 2025. That brought the total number of monthly active users to 350 million, which highlighted the rising demand for Google’s AI products.
Interestingly, though, despite Google’s progress in the artificial intelligence space, analysts at Wedbush removed Alphabet stock from their “Best Ideas List,” as AI has created new risks for Alphabet’s search and advertising business. Indeed, although they believe that Alphabet can adapt and succeed over time, they said it might take a while for the company to prove that to investors.
Is Google Stock a Good Buy?
Overall, analysts have a Strong Buy consensus rating on GOOGL stock based on 28 Buys and nine Holds assigned in the past three months. Furthermore, the average GOOGL price target of $197.69 per share implies 26% upside potential from current levels.
