Comment by jgalt212

9 hours ago

> And gemma downloads also can be from auto CI pipelines etc. Nothing concrete

I have always found NPM download numbers truly suspect. Is no one caching? Are they estimating true number of downloads base on some estimate of cache hits?

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xnx  7 hours ago

Absolute download numbers are a pure vanity metric. Relative download numbers compared to other models tell you a little bit.

marking-time  8 hours ago

> And gemma downloads also can be from auto CI pipelines etc. Nothing concrete

Thank you for adding some clarity to this. When I calculated 900 million downloads divided by 8.3 billion people in the world, I came with a number that made it look like about one person in 10 were downloading this model.