At the Gemma 4 Launch, Under the Pyramid

On April 17, I went to the Gemma 4 launch: SF Edition at the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. It was one of those Bay Area AI evenings where the setting does half the storytelling before anyone says a word: the sharp geometry of the Pyramid above us, the city outside, and inside, a room full of people building what the next turn of open models will make possible. I shot the event as I usually do, moving between the formal moments and the in-between ones: people arriving, conversations for