Gemma 4
Open SourceGoogle•Released on 2026-04-02
Google's most capable open model family. Four sizes optimized for local hardware: E2B and E4B for mobile/edge devices, 26B MoE for speed, 31B Dense for quality. Built on Gemini 3 technology with Apache 2.0 license. Supports 140+ languages, native function calling, agentic workflows, and multimodal input.
Voice of the community
sample 156“Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.”
“Purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, Gemma 4 delivers an unprecedented level of intelligence-per-parameter.”
“Chain of thoughts on Gemma is concise, helpful and coherent while Qwen does a lot of inner-gaslighting, and also loops a lot on default settings. Visual understanding is very good, and multilingual seems good as well.”
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Pros & Cons
Pros
- +Apache 2.0 open-source license (major upgrade from Gemma 3)
- +Four sizes covering mobile to workstation
- +26B MoE activates only 3.8B params (fast inference)
- +Native multimodal: text, image, video, audio
- +140+ language support
- +Agentic workflow ready (function calling, JSON output)
Cons
- −Larger models require significant hardware (80GB GPU unquantized)
- −Context window smaller than cloud Gemini (256K vs 1M)
- −Brand new release - ecosystem still developing