Gemma-4-E2B-IT runs on Raspberry Pi 5

Gemma 4 E2B is a watershed moment for local AI, bringing multimodal reasoning to cheap, accessible hardware without the privacy trade-offs of cloud APIs.

• –Native audio and vision support in a 2B model enables a new class of "always-on" local agents and interactive hardware.
• –The adoption of the Apache 2.0 license is a major win for the open-source community, removing commercial friction for edge deployment.
• –High decode speeds on the Pi 5 prove that "small" models have reached a level of intelligence that makes them practical for complex local tasks.
• –Agentic features like native function calling allow for direct hardware control, turning the Pi into a truly autonomous local brain.