Machine Learning Algorithms & Natural Language Processing

Jun 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Google Gemma 4 12B: Offline Multimodal AI on a 16 GB Laptop Beats 26B Model

Google DeepMind’s Gemma 4 12B model, released under Apache 2.0, runs fully offline on a 16 GB laptop, uses a novel no‑encoder unified architecture, delivers 80 token/s with only 9 GB VRAM, and matches the quality of the 26 B predecessor while powering advanced agentic and multimodal demos.