Using Gemma 2B Instruct on Together AI
Implementation guide · Gemma · Google DeepMind
Quick Start
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Code Examples
pip install togetherTOGETHER_API_KEYgemma-2b-itTogether uses "organization/model-name" format, e.g. "meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct" or "Qwen/QwQ-32B". See the Together model catalog for the exact ID.
from together import Together
client = Together() # reads TOGETHER_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gemma-2b-it",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Together AI
Platform for running open-source and proprietary LLMs
Together AI is a platform for running open-source and proprietary LLMs with fast serverless and dedicated endpoints at competitive inference pricing.
Pricing on Together AI
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.10 |
| Output tokens | $0.10 |
Capabilities
About Gemma 2B Instruct
Gemma 2B Instruct is a large language model developed by Google, designed to balance performance and accessibility with its 2 billion parameters. Derived from the Gemini family, it excels in tasks such as text generation, code interpretation, and mathematical problem-solving. Built on a transformer decoder architecture, it features multi-query attention, RoPE, GeGLU activations, and RMSNorm. Trained on approximately 6 trillion tokens, including web documents, code, and mathematical content, it uses SFT and RLHF for instruction-tuning. Notable for its lightweight design permitting deployment on consumer-grade hardware, it's open-source and optimized for dialogue applications. Despite its capabilities, limitations include potential biases, factual inaccuracies, and challenges with complex reasoning.