I'm still hoping for a bigger Gemma 4 version, but I think they may be worried about competing with their own hosted models, since Gemma 4 is already better than a lot of Google's proprietary models that are still available in AI Studio.
But, it is a shame that Qwen won't probably be doing more open models going forward. It is really strong for its size.
QWEN3.6 27b is pretty good, but i can still notice some spots where it's not as good as the frontier models.