Google launches FunctionGemma 270M edge AI model

PANews, December 22 - According to Google’s official blog, Google has released FunctionGemma, which fine-tunes Gemma 3 270M specifically for function calling models, targeting local/offline agent scenarios. Its features include unified chat and tool execution, support for customized fine-tuning (Mobile Actions accuracy improved from 58% to 85%), miniaturization for edge devices (such as NVIDIA Jetson Nano and mobile phones), and optimization for JSON/multilingual input. The official release provides download links for Hugging Face and Kaggle, along with deployment guidelines for Transformers, Unsloth, Keras, NeMo fine-tuning, and LiteRT-LM, vLLM, MLX, Llama.cpp, Ollama, Vertex AI, and LM Studio. Additionally, multiple demos and datasets/Colab have been launched on Edge Gallery.