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Google releases Gemma 4 open models

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Re: Google releases Gemma 4 open models

#11
Open weight models once again marching on and slowly being a viable alternative to the larger ones.

We are at least 1 year and at most 2 years until they surpass closed models for everyday tasks that can be done locally to save spending on tokens.

Re: Google releases Gemma 4 open models

#13

Hmm just tried the google/gemma-4-31B-it through HuggingFace (inference provider seems to be Novita) and function/tool calling was not enabled...

Yeah you can see here that tool calling is disabled: https://huggingface.co/inference/models?model=google%2Fgemma...

At least, as of this post

Re: Google releases Gemma 4 open models

#15
Comparison of Gemma 4 vs. Qwen 3.5 benchmarks, consolidated from their respective Hugging Face model cards:

    | Model          | MMLUP | GPQA  | LCB   | ELO  | TAU2  | MMMLU | HLE-n | HLE-t |
    |----------------|-------|-------|-------|------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
    | G4 31B         | 85.2% | 84.3% | 80.0% | 2150 | 76.9% | 88.4% | 19.5% | 26.5% |
    | G4 26B A4B     | 82.6% | 82.3% | 77.1% | 1718 | 68.2% | 86.3% |  8.7% | 17.2% |
    | G4 E4B         | 69.4% | 58.6% | 52.0% |  940 | 42.2% | 76.6% |   -   |   -   |
    | G4 E2B         | 60.0% | 43.4% | 44.0% |  633 | 24.5% | 67.4% |   -   |   -   |
    | G3 27B no-T    | 67.6% | 42.4% | 29.1% |  110 | 16.2% | 70.7% |   -   |   -   |
    | GPT-5-mini     | 83.7% | 82.8% | 80.5% | 2160 | 69.8% | 86.2% | 19.4% | 35.8% |
    | GPT-OSS-120B   | 80.8% | 80.1% | 82.7% | 2157 |  --   | 78.2% | 14.9% | 19.0% |
    | Q3-235B-A22B   | 84.4% | 81.1% | 75.1% | 2146 | 58.5% | 83.4% | 18.2% |  --   |
    | Q3.5-122B-A10B | 86.7% | 86.6% | 78.9% | 2100 | 79.5% | 86.7% | 25.3% | 47.5% |
    | Q3.5-27B       | 86.1% | 85.5% | 80.7% | 1899 | 79.0% | 85.9% | 24.3% | 48.5% |
    | Q3.5-35B-A3B   | 85.3% | 84.2% | 74.6% | 2028 | 81.2% | 85.2% | 22.4% | 47.4% |

    MMLUP: MMLU-Pro
    GPQA: GPQA Diamond
    LCB: LiveCodeBench v6
    ELO: Codeforces ELO
    TAU2: TAU2-Bench
    MMMLU: MMMLU
    HLE-n: Humanity's Last Exam (no tools / CoT)
    HLE-t: Humanity's Last Exam (with search / tool)
    no-T: no think

Re: Google releases Gemma 4 open models

#16
Even with search grounding, it scored a 2.5/5 on a basic botanical benchmark. It would take much longer for the average human to do a similar write-up, but they would likely do better than 50% hallucination if they had access to a search engine.

Re: Google releases Gemma 4 open models

#17
post #11

Open weight models once again marching on and slowly being a viable alternative to the larger ones. We are at least 1 year and at most 2 years until they surpass closed models for everyday tasks that can be done locally to save spending on tokens.

> We are at least 1 year and at most 2 years until they surpass closed models for everyday tasks that can be done locally to save spending on tokens.

Until they pass what closed models today can do.

By that time, closed models will be 4 years ahead.

Google would not be giving this away if they believed local open models could win.

Google is doing this to slow down Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Chinese, knowing that in the fullness of time they can be the leader. They'll stop being so generous once the dust settles.

Re: Google releases Gemma 4 open models

#18
Google might not have the best coding models (yet) but they seem to have the most intelligent and knowledgeable models of all especially Gemini 3.1 Pro is something.

One more thing about Google is that they have everything that others do not:

1. Huge data, audio, video, geospatial 2. Tons of expertise. Attention all you need was born there. 3. Libraries that they wrote. 4. Their own data centers and cloud. 4. Most of all, their own hardware TPUs that no one has.

Therefore once the bubble bursts, the only player standing tall and above all would be Google.

Re: Google releases Gemma 4 open models

#19

Thinking / reasoning + multimodal + tool calling. We made some quants at https://huggingface.co/collections/unsloth/gemma-4 for folks to run them - they work really well! Guide for those interested: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/gemma-4 Also note to use temperature = 1.0, top_p = 0.95, top_k = 64 and the EOS is " ". " thought\n" is also used for the thinking trace!

FYI, screenshot for the "Search and download Gemma 4" step on your guide is for qwen3.5, and when I searched for gemma-4 in Unsloth Studio it only shows Gemma 3 models.
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