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Google’s 2025 Open Source Report: What Devs Must Know

Google's 2025 open source report highlights 20,000 non-Google contributors, 400 million Gemma downloads, and $2 million in project funding, but the real story is a shared behavioral pattern with Anthropic and OpenAI: donating protocols while keeping products proprietary, signaling the direction of AI infrastructure.

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Google published its 2025 open source retrospective this month, and most of the coverage focused on the numbers. Twenty thousand non-Google contributors. Four hundred million Gemma downloads. Two million dollars in project funding. Impressive figures, but they’re the wrong thing to pay attention to. The real story is a behavioral pattern — one Google shares with Anthropic and OpenAI — that tells you exactly where AI infrastructure is heading and what you should be building on. The Playbook Nobody Announced In 2025, every major AI company executed the same move: donate the protocol, keep the product. Google donated its Agent2Agent […]

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