By Ryan Whitwam
Publication Date: 2026-06-03 19:10:00
Gemma 4 12B is almost as capable as the version with 26 billion parameters.
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Google says the new model is capable of complex multistep reasoning and agentic workflows that previously required the larger Gemma variants. Despite the smaller parameter count, Gemma 4 12B comes with the newly devised Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters, which take advantage of unused processing cycles to calculate possible future tokens. The result is greater speed and…