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Gemma 4 on Cerebras - The Fastest Inference Is Now Multimodal

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Re: Gemma 4 on Cerebras - The Fastest Inference Is Now Multimodal

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I just tried it on their website and it is extremely fast. I wonder what is the value prop of this? Where would I want 1. a smaller model 2. also non local, hosted on cloud I can't think of any case.

Answering myself: fancy autocomplete in my IDE?

Text autocorrect on my phone? Like give it all the context about me and so on.

Re: Gemma 4 on Cerebras - The Fastest Inference Is Now Multimodal

#6

I just tried it on their website and it is extremely fast. I wonder what is the value prop of this? Where would I want 1. a smaller model 2. also non local, hosted on cloud I can't think of any case.

speed is always better. if you have ever used a coding agent with 1000 tps going back to 50 seems like walking through sludge. for simple question i hate waiting 2 minutes for opus to loop 50 times just to read some files and answer a question.

its not necessarily specifically labout gemma 4, but in a year or 2 when we have opus class models at 2000 tps imagine the productivity.

Re: Gemma 4 on Cerebras - The Fastest Inference Is Now Multimodal

#7

I just tried it on their website and it is extremely fast. I wonder what is the value prop of this? Where would I want 1. a smaller model 2. also non local, hosted on cloud I can't think of any case.

speed is always better. if you have ever used a coding agent with 1000 tps going back to 50 seems like walking through sludge. for simple question i hate waiting 2 minutes for opus to loop 50 times just to read some files and answer a question. its not necessarily specifically labout gemma 4, but in a year or 2 when we have opus class models at 2000 tps imagine the productivity.

Of course I think speed is preferable but I don’t see myself paying for a fast Gemma

Re: Gemma 4 on Cerebras - The Fastest Inference Is Now Multimodal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

speed is always better. if you have ever used a coding agent with 1000 tps going back to 50 seems like walking through sludge. for simple question i hate waiting 2 minutes for opus to loop 50 times just to read some files and answer a question. its not necessarily specifically labout gemma 4, but in a year or 2 when we have opus class models at 2000 tps imagine the productivity.

Of course I think speed is preferable but I don’t see myself paying for a fast Gemma

i mean, i can imagine a million different apps that use ai that want cheap multimodal capabilities with high latency.

Re: Gemma 4 on Cerebras - The Fastest Inference Is Now Multimodal

#9

I just tried it on their website and it is extremely fast. I wonder what is the value prop of this? Where would I want 1. a smaller model 2. also non local, hosted on cloud I can't think of any case.

A voice assistant comes to mind. Ideally, it'd be local, but if you don't have the hardware you'll go with the cloud, in which case, the fastest, the better.

Re: Gemma 4 on Cerebras - The Fastest Inference Is Now Multimodal

#10

I just tried it on their website and it is extremely fast. I wonder what is the value prop of this? Where would I want 1. a smaller model 2. also non local, hosted on cloud I can't think of any case.

OCR is a decent use-case for smaller models. I've had good experience using gemma for OCR'ing handwritten stuff that tesseract doesn't do so well on.

But for 2, probably only useful if you have a huge batch workload you want to get done quicker and don't want the local hardware for it?

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