Run Gemma 4 12B locally with LM Studio

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-06-04 · Open on X

Topics: LLM Fundamentals, AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator recommends LM Studio as the easiest way to run Google's Gemma 4 12B. The quoted post says Gemma 4 12B is a dense, mid-sized model that fits on a laptop, is released under Apache 2.0 and is available in LM Studio.

Key points

• Gemma 4 12B is a dense, mid-sized Gemma model from Google.
• It is released under the Apache 2.0 license (open weights, commercial use allowed).
• It is small enough to run on a laptop.
• LM Studio lets you discover, download and run local LLMs like Gemma 4 12B without coding.

Resources mentioned

• LM Studio - Google models page · tool · lmstudio.ai · free
  LM Studio's page for discovering, downloading and running Google models such as Gemma 4 12B locally.
• LM Studio · tool · x.com · free
  Desktop app for downloading and running LLMs locally, with a developer mode that serves models through an API.
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• Gemma 4 12B · tool · blog.google · free · open in a browser to verify
  Google's open-weight, encoder-free multimodal model under Apache 2.0 for on-device use.
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Try this

• Install LM Studio and download Gemma 4 12B to run it locally.