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Google launched Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal AI model that runs locally on laptops with just 16GB of RAM. Unlike traditional models, it skips separate encoders, processing audio and video directly, making it faster and more efficient while delivering performance close to Google's larger 27B model.
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