Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

Gemma 4 12B is a new multimodal AI model that brings advanced reasoning capabilities to consumer laptops with improved efficiency.

• •Unified encoder-free architecture processes vision and audio inputs directly into the LLM backbone
• •Delivers performance approaching the larger 26B Mixture of Experts model with less than half the memory footprint
• •Runs on consumer laptops with just 16GB of RAM or unified memory
• •Includes Multi-Token Prediction drafters to reduce inference latency
• •Released under Apache 2.0 license with broad ecosystem support

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