Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal model handling text, images, and audio that runs on laptops with 16 GB of RAM under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B is an open-source model that processes text, images, and audio natively and runs on laptops with just 16 GB of RAM. It nearly matches the twice-as-large 26B model in benchmarks and ships under an Apache 2.0 license for commercial use.
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