So exciting to help build encoder-free Gemma from scratch! Amazing to see all modalities intertwined in one single LLM decoder 馃К.
Bonus for my academic heart 鉂わ笍馃憮: it's simple to run and brings some new architectural insights to the OSS community!
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Meet Gemma 4 12B!
A unified, encoder-free multimodal model designed to bring high-performance intelligence directly to your laptop, and released under an Apache 2.0 license.
Bridging the gap between edge efficiency and advanced reasoning. Here is what鈥檚 new with Gemma 4 12B: 馃憞