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Gemma 4 12B surpassed 4 million downloads on HuggingFace within a week of…

2026-06-12 · 15:45 UTC ·@AndreasPSteiner ·0 min read

Brief

Gemma 4 12B, released last week, exceeded 4 million HuggingFace downloads, positioning it as the leading encoderfree VLM. The model is presented as the first general-purpose LLM with encoderfree audio input. Sundar Pichai highlights its laptop-friendly size and performance, enabling multi-step reasoning and agentic workflows for community use.

Why it matters

Gemma 4 12B surpassed 4 million downloads on HuggingFace within a week of release, making it the most popular encoderfree vision–language model by a large margin.

Key details

  • Authors claim Gemma 4 12B is the first general-purpose LLM with encoderfree audio input and — per Sundar Pichai — balances size and performance so it can run locally on a laptop while supporting multi-step reasoning and agentic workflows.
Source evidence

Released last week, and already more than 4M downloads on HuggingFace alone 😊

This makes Gemma 4 12B the most popular encoderfree VLM by a large margin.

In addition to being the first-ever general purpose LLM with encoderfree audio input!

Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai)

Our new Gemma 4 12B model hits a sweet spot between size + performance: it can run locally on a laptop, while enabling powerful multi-step reasoning and agentic workflows. Can’t wait to see what the community does with this one!

— https://nitter.net/sundarpichai/status/2062257242645393889#m