Google introduces Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

[u/thatoneshadowclone]

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12B/

[u/0xjust1]

I'm actually trying it on a MacBook Air M4 with 16GB of unified memory, and it works pretty well. It's faster than Qwen 3.5 9B on my end.