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These are Google's numbers, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it)", "Google publishes a draft model for speculative decoding, google/gemma-4-12B-it-assistant, and Ollama's gemma4:12b bundles one (https://gemma.ai/models/gemma-4/)", "Google's Gemini API hosts only the 26B A4B and 31B sizes; its page says the smaller sizes are not hosted (https://gemma.ai/deployment/gemini-api/)" ], "area": "models", "details": [ { "label": "Surface graded", "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it and Google's QAT builds, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the chat template and tokenizer config, Google's Gemma documentation at gemma.ai and the runtimes' own code on 21 October 2026. Nothing was downloaded or run. There's no hosted version to grade" }, { "label": "Model", "value": "A dense decoder of 11.95B parameters, 48 layers, sliding-window attention of 1,024 tokens interleaved with global layers 5 to 1. Google calls it Unified because it has no vision or audio encoder, and image patches and raw audio go through light linear projections into the decoder (Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration, model type gemma4_unified). Text, images, video as frames and audio up to 30 seconds in, text out. 11,959,730,224 parameters in the files per Hugging Face's metadata" }, { "label": "Files", "value": "One safetensors file in BF16 (23.95 GB with the tokenizer) with chat_template.jinja, tokenizer_config.json carrying a response schema and template for parsing, and generation_config.json. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for both LFS files and a git hash for every file. Google's QAT builds sit in their own repositories (Q4_0 GGUF, w4a16 compressed tensors, and an unquantised QAT checkpoint for conversion)" }, { "label": "Licence", "value": "Apache 2.0, named in the card's metadata and linked to Google's Gemma 4 licence page, which redirects to Google's Apache 2.0 page (last updated 1 April 2026). The repository has no LICENSE file. gemma.ai still lists the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy under Legal, which neither the card nor the licence page applies to Gemma 4" }, { "label": "Runtimes", "value": "Model code in Transformers (gemma4_unified, from 5.10.0), vLLM 0.32.0 (gemma4_unified, with the gemma4 tool and reasoning parsers), SGLang 0.5.22 (gemma4_unified), mlx-vlm (gemma4_unified), llama.cpp (the gemma4 architecture with the encoder-free GEMMA4UV and GEMMA4UA projectors in its multimodal code), gemma4:12b in Ollama's library and google/gemma-4-12b in LM Studio's catalogue. Google's JAX library has no 12B class" }, { "label": "Context", "value": "262,144 tokens native (max_position_embeddings in config.json, 256K on the card, corrected from a smaller value on 4 June 2026). Ollama's default context is smaller, so raise num_ctx" }, { "label": "Tools and reasoning", "value": "Tools are declared in `\u003c|tool\u003edeclaration:...\u003ctool|\u003e` blocks and calls come back as `\u003c|tool_call\u003ecall:name{...}\u003ctool_call|\u003e`, documented on gemma.ai with a full call-and-response example that uses gemma-4-E2B-it. Transformers parses them with `processor.parse_response` and the response schema in tokenizer_config.json, and vLLM and SGLang ship a gemma4 tool parser. Thinking is off by default, `enable_thinking=True` or `\u003c|think|\u003e` at the start of the system prompt turns it on, and reasoning comes back in `\u003c|channel\u003ethought ... \u003cchannel|\u003e`. The template adds an empty thought block when thinking is off, to stop ghost thought channels. No thinking budget is documented" }, { "label": "Hardware", "value": "Google states 26.7 GB at BF16, 13.4 GB at SFP8 and 6.7 GB at Q4_0 to load the weights, with 20% overhead and the KV cache on top" }, { "label": "Training data", "value": "A general description on the card, web documents in over 140 languages, code, mathematics, images and audio, with a January 2025 cut-off and CSAM, sensitive-data and quality filtering. No mix, sizes or dataset list" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai as recorded for the first batch's Gemma 4 listings; the card names Google DeepMind as author)", "domain": "gemma.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://gemma.ai/models/releases/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The registrant and registration date are carried from the gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it facts read earlier on 21 October 2026, since rdap.org rate-limited our request this time and wasn't retried.", "Nothing is hosted under this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "gemma.ai keeps a dated releases page for the Gemma family (this size on 3 June 2026). The Hugging Face commit history says what each change fixed.", "gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. Google's company-wide security.txt at google.com points to its vulnerability reward programme." ], "score": 68, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai as recorded for the first batch's Gemma 4 listings; the card names Google DeepMind as author)", "points": 20, "max": 20, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "gemma.ai, registered 2017-12-16 (8 years)", "points": 11, "max": 15, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "no hosted endpoint", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "nothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "nothing hosted, not scored", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" } ] }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.json" } }