TAI #199: Gemma 4 Brings a Credible US Open-Weight Contender Back to the Table

Also, Anthropic’s annualized revenue surpasses $30B, Cursor 3, Veo 3.1 Lite & more! What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, and I think this is the most consequential US open-weight release in quite a while. China has been leading the open-weight conversation for months, especially with ever-larger Mixture-of-Experts families and increasingly agentic models. Gemma 4 does not wipe that scoreboard clean. What it does do is bring a strong Apache 2.0 family from a U. S.