Okay, here’s my experience sharing about running Gemma 2B JPN with Ollama, hope you guys find it helpful.
So I heard about this Gemma 2B JPN thing from Google, it’s supposed to be this neat little language model that can handle Japanese like a champ. Seemed pretty cool, and I wanted to play around with it. I mean, who doesn’t love messing with new tech, right? Plus, it’s an open model, so that’s a win.
First, I needed a way to actually use this thing, and that’s where Ollama came in. It’s a tool to run these large language models. I did some digging, turns out a bunch of folks were using it for different models, and it seemed pretty straightforward to set up.
So, I grabbed Ollama and got it running on my machine. I won’t bore you with the details of installation, it was pretty much a follow-the-instructions type deal. Nothing too crazy, even for a non-expert like me.
The Fun Begins
Once I had Ollama up and running, I pulled down the Gemma 2B JPN model. It is not big, just 2 billion parameters, way smaller than other models. It is trained on 6 trillion tokens. It also comes in a 7 billion parameter version but I did not test that. The website said “Gemma models are trained on 6T tokens, and released with 2 versions, 2b and 7b.” I found this part interesting so I had to try it out.
Then came the moment of truth. I started throwing some Japanese prompts at it. Simple stuff at first, like “日本の首都はどこですか？” (Where is the capital of Japan?). Boom, it nailed it. “東京” (Tokyo). Okay, not bad.
Next, I got a bit more adventurous. I tried some sentence completion, like “今日は天気が…” (Today the weather is…). It gave me a bunch of reasonable continuations, like “良いですね” (nice, isn’t it?) and “晴れです” (sunny). Pretty impressive, I gotta say.
Then I went down the rabbit hole, as one does. I tried to make it write a short story in Japanese. It did not go too bad. The story was kind of all over the place, but hey, it was in Japanese, and it kind of made sense. Sort of.
I had read that it was also able to generate code, so I tried a couple of coding questions in Japanese. And it actually worked. I could not believe my eyes when I saw the code on my screen. I ran it and it worked perfectly.
My Verdict
- It’s pretty darn good for its size. I mean, it’s not going to replace a human writer anytime soon, but for a 2B parameter model, it holds its own.
- Ollama makes it easy to use. No need to mess with complicated setups.
- It’s fun to experiment with. You can try all sorts of prompts and see what it comes up with.
Overall, I’m pretty stoked about Gemma 2B JPN and Ollama. It’s a cool combo that lets you play around with a powerful Japanese language model without needing a supercomputer. I have also tried some English prompts and it was able to answer them as well. This is a model that can do both English and Japanese. It is like a two for one deal. If you’re into this kind of stuff, I definitely recommend giving it a shot. I had lots of fun and hope you will too.
Alright, that’s all from me. Hope you enjoyed my little adventure with Gemma 2B JPN and Ollama!
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