Comment by ForHackernews
8 hours ago
Can someone explain what this actually means? I assume this still runs on Google's cloud so it's not 'private' in any meaningful sense.
8 hours ago
Can someone explain what this actually means? I assume this still runs on Google's cloud so it's not 'private' in any meaningful sense.
It does not run on Google’s cloud. You can download the model and host it yourself, locally or using a provider you trust.
That's actually great. I didn't realize Google had any models that could be self-hosted.
The Gemma models are available for self hosting. I've used these one on the ollama website myself.
https://ollama.com/library/gemma3
Differentially private means that:
training_algorithm(training data with a row that has "ForHackernews blood test report...") hard to distinguish from training_algorithm(training data without that) upto a factor of epsilon. They have explained further in the article itself with concrete values for epsilon.