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Gemma 4 Apache 2.0 License Enables Commercial Open-Weight AI Deployment

Gemma 4 shifted to Apache 2.0 licensing, enabling commercial deployment of a competitive open-weight model without API costs or vendor dependency. This addresses a real concern for builders worried about OpenAI and Anthropic lock-in who need near-frontier performance at scale. The capability-cost tradeoff is now viable for many production use cases.

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