Google's Gemma 4 12B is designed to run on 16GB RAM laptops
Ars Technica AI·4h ago·Release
Google introduced Gemma 4 12B, an open model aimed at running locally on laptops with 16GB of RAM. The model uses a new encoding scheme and token prediction to improve efficiency relative to its size. Its practical importance depends on real-world benchmarks, but it could lower the barrier for private, offline, and local multimodal AI workflows.
