Gemma 4 12B: The Developer Guide
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Google releases Gemma 4 12B, a dense multimodal model with a groundbreaking encoder-free architecture that feeds vision and audio directly into the LLM backbone, cutting latency and memory overhead. It's the first medium-sized Gemma model with native audio input, runs locally on 16GB VRAM GPUs, and debuts macOS desktop apps for fully offline spoken and visual interaction on consumer hardware.
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