Google Ships Gemma 4 12B with Agentic Reasoning Under Apache 2.0
Google released Gemma 4, a 12-billion-parameter open model with built-in agentic reasoning, vision, and audio capabilities under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — a significant open-weight drop in an increasingly competitive landscape.
Google quietly released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal open model that includes agentic reasoning, vision, and audio capabilities under an Apache 2.0 license, as @nip1007 noted. For a 12B parameter model, the feature set is aggressive: agentic reasoning implies the model is designed to plan, use tools, and execute multi-step tasks, not just generate text.
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