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// 51d agoMODEL RELEASE
Google DeepMind launches Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0
Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4, a new family of open multimodal models featuring a flagship 31B dense model and a hyper-efficient 26B MoE variant. The launch marks a major shift for the series by adopting a fully permissive Apache 2.0 license and introducing native multimodal capabilities with advanced reasoning for agentic workflows.
// ANALYSIS
Gemma 4 going fully Apache 2.0 is a massive strategic play by Google to dominate the open-source ecosystem against Meta's Llama series.
- –The 26B MoE model activates only 3.8 billion parameters during inference, bringing frontier-class intelligence and extreme low latency to standard consumer GPUs.
- –Native multimodal support across the family—including audio input on the smaller edge models—positions Gemma 4 as a complete, out-of-the-box foundation for complex autonomous agents.
- –A staggering leap in reasoning and coding capabilities (jumping to Codeforces 2150) proves Google's distillation pipeline from the main Gemini models is yielding massive dividends for the open community.
// TAGS
gemma-4open-sourcellmmultimodalagentreasoning
DISCOVERED
51d ago
2026-04-06
PUBLISHED
51d ago
2026-04-06
RELEVANCE
10/ 10
AUTHOR
jacek2023