Google Releases Gemma 4 Technical Report Detailing Native Multimodal Architecture

Between July 7 and 8, Google officially released the technical report for Gemma 4, fully disclosing the technical details of its new generation of open-weight models to the community. As a highly anticipated open-weight series, the release of Gemma 4 is particularly notable for its native multimodal capabilities and architectural upgrades.

Key Details and Architecture

According to the report, Gemma 4 is positioned as a native multimodal language model. Architecturally, the series includes both dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, with parameter sizes ranging from 2.3B to 31B. All model sizes feature improved vision and audio encoders, aiming to further enhance computational efficiency and reasoning capabilities. The official Google account noted that the report systematically elaborates on the series' exploration of multimodal language capabilities and efficient architectural design, emphasizing the balance achieved between task performance and efficiency.

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