Gemma 4 12B
Gemma 4 12B is a separately released multimodal update using a unified, encoder-free architecture. Image patches and audio waveforms enter through linear projections into the language model instead of dedicated modality encoders. Its approximately 12B dense decoder supports text, vision, audio, thinking, and native tool use with a 256K context. Quantized deployment targets consumer hardware, including laptops with 16GB of memory; actual capacity depends on precision and context.
2026-06-03
11.95B
Dense decoder-only Transformer with direct linear projections of image patches and audio waveforms; no dedicated vision or audio encoder
Apache-2.0
Specifications
- Parameters
- 11.95B
- Architecture
- Dense decoder-only Transformer with direct linear projections of image patches and audio waveforms; no dedicated vision or audio encoder
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context Window
- 262,144 tokens
- Training Data Cutoff
- 2025-01
- Type
- multimodal
- Modalities
- textimageaudiovideo
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- Gemma
- API Access
- Not Available
- Chat Interface
- Not Available
- Multilingual Support
- Yes
- Variants
- Gemma 4 12B pre-trainedGemma 4 12B instruction-tunedMulti-token prediction draft heads
- Hardware Support
- GPUTPUCPU
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- reasoningcodevisionaudio understandingvideo framesfunction calling
- Known Limitations
- Audio and video duration limits still apply.Quantization and long contexts affect quality and memory use.Generated facts and tool arguments require verification.
- Notable Use Cases
- local multimodal assistantslaptop inferencetool-driven applications
- Function Calling Support
- Yes
- Tool Use Support
- Yes