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.

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 … The post