Today we’re introducing Gemma 4 12B — our latest open model that brings advanced agentic reasoning, vision and audio directly to your laptop.
It delivers performance nearing our larger Gemma models with a much smaller total memory footprint, while being small enough to run locally with just 16GB of VRAM. It’s open and accessible for everyone to use under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
This is all made possible by our new, unified architecture that removes separate multimodal encoders. Here’s how we did it 🧵
6/ Highly recommend the audiobook version as well if you’re a listener. 10/10. Now, time to dive into the sequels! 🚀
What did you think of the "Messenger" virus mechanics? It’s such a clever way to handle evolution over such a massive timescale.
🧵 The Heirs of Earth
1/ I finally finished Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It sat on my TBR list for far too long, but wow—it lived up to every bit of the hype. If you love "Big Idea" Sci-Fi that spans millennia, this is a must-read. #ChildrenOfTime#SciFi #BookRecommendation
5/ The Ending: Without spoilers, the resolution is one of the most satisfying "First Contact" moments I’ve ever read. It challenges how we view empathy and survival. The "monsters" might just be the ones who teach us how to be human again. 🕷️🕸️
Google Cloud has incredible momentum: our models now process 16B+ tokens /min via direct API use by our customers (up from 10B last quarter).
This week at Cloud Next we’re sharing an extraordinary range of new partnerships and innovations, including our new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the new mission control to build, scale, govern, and optimize agents. We’re also launching our 8th-gen TPUs to take on the most demanding agentic workloads.
Congratulations to our @GoogleCloud team, and a huge thanks to our partners who are building the future with us.
¡Dale poder a tus sistemas con ADK!
En este workshop práctico con Felipe Velásquez (GDE y ex-Googler) aprenderás a crear sistemas multiagente y resolver desafíos con tecnología Google. 🚀
📌 BiblioGAM en @centroGAM y virtual por https://t.co/34vefB8lUA
#Nerdearla 🇨🇱
La semana pasada estuvimos con nuestros Google Developer Experts en Talent Land... La siguiente semana, en directo desde Santiago, Chile en **Nerdearla**.
No se lo pierdan, regístrense a los talleres y sigan las conferencias en vivo y por streaming:
📅 jueves 16 de abril en @centroGAM
Participa en los talleres presenciales de #Nerdearla Chile 🇨🇱
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Moral of the story: AI Studio is incredible for speed, but you still need to keep your eyes on the road. The "vibes" aren't always perfect!
Check out the (finally) stable portfolio: https://t.co/igx6M69wid 📸
#AIStudio#BuildInPublic#Gemini#VibeCoding#photography
Migration #2 was... a journey. 😅
I moved https://t.co/sYfXsgw9W2 to Google AI Studio, and while I leveled up the tech stack, I also hit the "AI Wall." Hard. 🧵👇
After a few hours of manual cleanup, it’s finally working. 🦾 We’ve got:
✅ Auto-tagging & SEO suggestions
✅ Rate limiting & Admin protection
✅ Faster loading with blur-up transitions