Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B Revolutionizes Multimodal AI on Low-RAM Laptops
Google Deepmind has launched Gemma 4 12B, a groundbreaking open AI model that can process text, images, and audio on laptops with just 16 GB of RAM, nearly matching the performance of its larger 26B counterpart. This breakthrough has significant implications for developers, businesses, and everyday users who can now harness the power of multimodal AI on low-end devices.
Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B is an open-source model that processes text, images, and audio natively and runs on laptops with just 16 GB of RAM. It nearly matches the twice-as-large 26B model in benchmarks and ships under an Apache 2.0 license for commercial use. The article Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM appeared first on The Decoder.