Not FunctionGemma related, but would love to see an open weights model from Google for speech to text transcription (diarization, timestamps, etc.).

Whisper is old and resource intensive for the accuracy it provides.

I'm not specifically promising anything but I do want to say 2026 is going to be a great year! Many of my colleagues are shipping models too, such as t5gemma which is on the front page, and I'm personally excited to see what we're all collectively going to release in the coming year.