Google DeepMind Launches Gemma 4 12B Multimodal Model

Google DeepMind has introduced Gemma 4 12B, a new multimodal AI model that integrates vision and audio inputs directly into its language model backbone, eliminating the need for separate encoders. This design reduces latency and memory usage, allowing the model to run on consumer laptops with 16GB of RAM. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 12B is accessible to developers for building advanced AI applications. The model's performance approaches that of larger models, making it a versatile tool for multimodal and agentic tasks.