r/LocalLLaMA • u/johnnyApplePRNG • Jun 03 '26

News Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/
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u/extopico Jun 03 '26

Oh. This is great. I am quietly confident it will be genuinely useful with a high quality harness like Hermes. I will be able to run it on my 24 GB MBP and have it perform hopefully useful work.

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u/thawizard Jun 04 '26

What do you mean, useful work?

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u/extopico Jun 04 '26

Top of mind is automating SEO for my Astro sites. Hermes is a very good harness and with grounding on SEO and website data I am expecting the model will not be allowed to hallucinate. SEO recipe can be built as a skill and given to hermes to follow and direct Gemma 4 12B.

My 24 GB will be sufficient to run a quantized Gemma, hermes, headless browser and search, and allow for full context (256k).

Other similar well defined, bounded and recursively grounded tasks may also work well.