Gemma 4 Redefines Open-Source AI: Efficiency Without Compromise

Gemma 4 addresses a fundamental constraint that has long plagued open-source AI: developers have historically had to choose between capability, privacy, and infrastructure control. This release rewrites those trade-offs through its Mixture-of-Experts architecture, which achieves 97% of a larger model's performance at just 12% of the computational cost. For practitioners, this means frontier-class AI can now run locally without vendor lock-in, fundamentally shifting who can deploy and control their own AI infrastructure.