Google releases Gemma 4 open models

https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/

Gemma 4

Gemma 4 is a family of open models, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

Google DeepMind
Hi all!
I work on the Gemma team, one of many as this one was a bigger effort given it was a mainline release. Happy to answer whatever questions I can
Thanks for this release! Any reason why 12B variant was skipped this time? Was looking forward for a competitor to Qwen3.5 9B as it allows for a good agentic flow without taking up a whole lotta vram. I guess E4B is taking its place.