TL;DR
- Google has released the Gemma 4 12B model aimed at consumer laptops with at least 16GB RAM.
- Gemma 4 12B is the company’s first mid-sized model to support native audio input.
- It utilizes an encoder-free architecture to offer multimodal performance without the latency introduced by encoders. The new model performs close to the Gemma 4 26B MoE model in benchmarks.
Back in April, Google released its mobile-friendly Gemma E2B and E4B models, bringing on-device multimodal AI to Android and iOS devices. It also released the high-end 26B Mixture of Experts (MoE) and 31B Dense models for higher-end devices with dedicated AI GPUs. Now, the company is launching another Gemma model that sits nicely between the four.
Google today announced the Gemma 4 12B model aimed at bringing on-device AI capabilities to laptops. It offers multimodal features and is the first mid-sized model from Google to support native audio input.
