Field Guide · Week of 17 August 2026
Gemma 4 12B
Google · United States · Google
The honest everyday model for a 16 GB laptop. Clear writing, Apache license, no account required after download.
- Where it runs
- Runs on your computer
- Memory
- 16 GB (4-bit)
- Size
- 12B dense
- License
- Apache 2.0
Why it is on this week’s list
Highest-quality dense model that still leaves room for your files on a normal machine. This is what we install first for most people.
Use it when
Letters, notes, lesson plans, a first private assistant.
Skip it when
You need a 70B-class reasoner, or you only have 8 GB.
Published scores
Scores as of 17 August 2026. A blank test is not a zero. We just will not invent it.
- GPQA Diamond
- 78.8*
- SWE-Bench Verified
- —
- LiveCodeBench
- 77.1*
- MMLU / MMLU-Pro
- 77.2*
- AIME
- —
- Humanity’s Last Exam
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Google Gemma 4 card · 2026-07-30
No public number we will stand behind.
Google Gemma 4 card · 2026-07-30
LiveCodeBench v6.
Google Gemma 4 card · 2026-07-30
MMLU-Pro.
No public number we will stand behind.
No public number we will stand behind.