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Gemma 4 26B-A4B uncensored fine-tunes lag
Google’s Gemma 4 26B MoE just landed, and the first community decensored fine-tunes are already popping up on Hugging Face. The LocalLLaMA thread’s consensus is simple: wait a bit, because the early forks look rushed and the ecosystem around the model is still settling.
// ANALYSIS
The short answer is “yes, but not a great one yet.” There are already a few Heretic-based decensored builds, but this is still launch-week territory, so quality is uneven and the safest move is to let the dust settle before picking a fork.
- –Google shipped Gemma 4 26B with broad official tooling support, so the base model is the stable starting point
- –Early community variants like the Heretic-based decensored builds are showing up fast, but that speed comes with rough edges
- –One of the model-card notes already flags broken or repetitive behavior on some harmful prompts, which is a bad sign for production use
- –If you want fewer refusals today, prompt/system tuning on the official model may be more reliable than chasing the first random uncensored upload
- –Expect better options over the next 1-2 weeks as fine-tunes, quants, and inference support mature
// TAGS
gemma-4-26b-a4bllmopen-sourceopen-weightsfine-tuningself-hosted
DISCOVERED
7d ago
2026-04-04
PUBLISHED
7d ago
2026-04-04
RELEVANCE
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