It seems like Gemma should replace Gemini Nano as the AI built into Chrome.
Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
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Re: Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
#42The Gemma models really are amazing. I was on a flight a few days ago and used E2B to do some basic research on the place I was going to, running the model locally on my Pixel 10 Pro. It gave me basically the same as Gemini or ChatGPT would do when I landed
I haven't tried E2B but E4B isn't particularly better than the old Gemma3 4B model(which was already very good at multilingual and decent at other tasks) but the voice recognition is a nice addition.
Re: Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
#43no firefox? sad :(
Re: Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
#44Am I correct in interpreting the title to mean that visiting the page will result in a 3.1GB download?
Yes. I tested it. It downloaded 3.1GB
Re: Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
#45I've had excellent luck using Claude Code to generate "mermaid diagrams" for me, and convert them to .png format headlessly using mmdc/puppeteer. Really helped me out with an engineering proposal I just finished. In past years I would have fumbled around with Visio forever and the result would have been worse.
And yet people here insist that the height of an llm is not being above to draw a pelican or count letters in a word
Well, mermaid diagrams are "just" a list of nodes and their relations. You'd expect any llm capable of generating code to be able to generate them
Writing an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle without being able to see the result and iterate based on that is incredibly difficult by comparison. I'm sure some humans could do it, but I sure can't. That's part of the beauty of it: it's very difficult to do but a toddler could judge the results
Writing an SVG of a diagram by hand would be somewhere on the middle ground. Or depending on the number of nodes might be even harder than the pelican. Layouting diagrams can get tricky very quickly. It's also one of Mermaid's biggest weaknesses
Re: Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
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#47Re: Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
#48Am I correct in interpreting the title to mean that visiting the page will result in a 3.1GB download?
Yes. I tested it. It downloaded 3.1GB
Given what the page does, that's not a surprising amount, but consider it would take over 5 days to download on a 56k dialup connection, and even at 100Mbps that's over 4 minutes.
Re: Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
#49I've had excellent luck using Claude Code to generate "mermaid diagrams" for me, and convert them to .png format headlessly using mmdc/puppeteer. Really helped me out with an engineering proposal I just finished. In past years I would have fumbled around with Visio forever and the result would have been worse.
You can copy past the mermaid to excalidraw to visualize it.
Re: Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
#50I've had excellent luck using Claude Code to generate "mermaid diagrams" for me, and convert them to .png format headlessly using mmdc/puppeteer. Really helped me out with an engineering proposal I just finished. In past years I would have fumbled around with Visio forever and the result would have been worse.
I find Mermaid diagram rendering is quite ugly by default. I've gotten much better-looking results by asking it to just generate SVGs. As a bonus it can do animations too. e.g. see slide 3 here, which I first tried with Mermaid and then switched to SVG when I couldn't get the rendering to look good: https://talks.mk.gg/2026/atmosphereconf/