Gemma 4 and Google DeepMind's Open-Source Push

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

Topics: Industry Trends & Job Market, LLM Fundamentals · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator praises Google DeepMind for releasing open models and says Gemma 4 is very good. A short note that Gemma 4 is a strong open-weight model worth trying.

Key points

• Google DeepMind keeps releasing open models.
• The creator thinks Gemma 4 is a very strong open model.

Resources mentioned

• Gemma 4 · tool · ai.google.dev · free
  Google's family of open-weight models in several sizes, built to run on devices and offline, with multimodal and agentic abilities, and open to fine-tuning.
  Also in: Gemma 4 Runs Locally On-Device in the Antigravity SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), On-Device AI: Running Gemma 4 E2B Offline on an iPhone with LiteRT (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Gemma 4 Models Offline on an iPhone (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-tuning Gemma4-E2B on your own tweet style with Unsloth (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 25 more
• Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) on X · person · x.com · free
  Google DeepMind's official X account, which posts research and model releases such as Gemma.
  Also in: Running AI Locally: Rebuilding AIBackends as a Python Library with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 E4B: A Local Agentic Edge Model in 6GB RAM (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)