Google 开源 Gemma 4 12B(密集参数,Apache 2.0 许可),采用全新无编码器架构:移除独立的视觉(550M 参数、27 层 Transformer)和音频(300M 参数、12 层 Conformer)编码器。视觉改为 35M 嵌入层(约缩小 15 倍),音频以 40ms 帧直接投影到大语言模型。模型在 16GB VRAM 笔记本上即可运行智能体推理、视觉和音频任务,性能接近 26B 参数模型。共享权重支持一次 LoRA 调优覆盖视觉、音频和文本。
Gemma 4 12B shipped today under the label "encoder-free."
A local 12b model that shows really good results. I'm a big fan of Gemma Gemma 4 12B is out: a dense, fully open model (Apache 2.0) that runs on a 16GB laptop and does agentic reasoning, vision and audio at a quality Google puts near its 26B model.
The reason a 12B can pull this off: Google removed the separate vision and audio encoders and feeds both straight into the model, which keeps the memory footprint small enough for consumer GPUs.
For on-device assistants and private coding agents, that lowers the bar a lot. always look forward to the updates. 12b is a good sweet spot in terms of size.