Gemma 4 12B
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Google DeepMind
- C · CEO & Politics
- Koray Kavukcuoglu (SVP, day-to-day lead) — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2026
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Open weights (Hugging Face; Apache 2.0) + local
- I · Inputs
- Text+Image+Audio
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA / UK
- K · Key Staffers
- Demis Hassabis (Chair, GDM; Chief Scientist, Alphabet), Shane Legg (Co-Founder, Chief AGI Scientist), Lila Ibrahim (COO), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet CEO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Multimodal LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Apache 2.0 license)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 7/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 6/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 6/10 → 7.10
- R · What Makes It Special
- Encoder-free multimodal 12B targeting 16GB-VRAM local setups: one unified network instead of bolt-on vision/audio encoders. Stealth-updated Jul 15, 2026 (Flash Attention 4 on Hopper — 25-70% prefill speedup, tool-calling fixes, configurable vision resolution) with no version bump, drawing criticism about checkpoint ambiguity.
- S · Stock / Status
- $344 (GOOGL, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @GoogleDeepMind
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Multimodal LLM from Google DeepMind, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“Gemma 4 12B.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/google-deepmind-gemma-4-12b.html
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