🔧 Gemma 4: From Raspberry Pi to Research Workstation — One Architecture, No Quality Compromise

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4


TL;DR — Gemma 4 is four open-weights multimodal models (E2B, E4B, 26B, 31B) under Apache 2.0, released April 2, 2026. What is genuinely new: native thinking mode, trained function calling, hybrid local+global attention enabling 256K context, and Per-Layer Embeddings letting a 2B...