Small And Open Source Still Has A Horse In This Race

Small And Open Source Still Has A Horse In This Race

From Tech Brew Ride Home by Morning Brew

June 4, 2026 · 22 min

About this episode

The episode discusses Google's new multimodal model, chip supply issues, and recent funding news in the tech industry.

Google released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model that runs locally on 16GB devices. TSMC's CEO warned chip supply won't meet demand for years. Ramp raised $750M at $44B, and Anthropic says 80%+ of its merged code is now Claude-authored. Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-parameter unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory (VentureBeat) Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada (FT) Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among the signatories on a public letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA that could be used in AI-developed bioweapons (Wired) TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill the demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years (Bloomberg) Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B (Bloomberg) Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code…

Topics covered

  • AI
  • chip supply
  • open source
  • data centers
  • funding
  • synthetic DNA

Keywords

  • Gemma 4 12B
  • TSMC
  • Ramp
  • synthetic DNA
  • AI
  • funding
  • data centers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, TSMC, Ramp, Iconiq, GIC, OTPP, Anthropic, Public First, VentureBeat, FT

Products: Gemma 4 12B

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