Google's new open source Gemma 4 12B analyzes audio, video — and runs entirely locally on a typical 16GB enterprise laptop

For enterprise leaders aiming to decentralize their AI workloads, Gemma 4 12B offers a rare combination of edge-friendly efficiency and frontier-class reasoning.
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Encoder-Free AI explained: The architecture behind Google’s Gemma 4 12B

A vast majority of multi-modal AI systems function as a relay race. For example, an image will come in through the Vision Encoder, be transformed into a language the Language Model understands and ...
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NPU Acceleration For Multimodal LLMs

Transformer-based models have rapidly spread from text to speech, vision, and other modalities. This has created challenges for the development of Neural Processing Units (NPUs). NPUs must now ...

Google drops Gemma 4 12B: A game-changing AI that runs on your laptop

India, June 7 -- Google has announced the launch of Gemma 4 12B, a dense multimodal model featuring a unified, encoder-free architecture.