Google releases Gemma 3n: 2GB RAM multimodal model, first sub-10B to top 1300 on LMArena
joemeno · x · 2026-09-17
Google has officially launched Gemma 3n:
- Multimodal understanding: handles text, audio, image, and video input
- Ultra-light: runs with as little as 2GB of RAM
- Benchmark: first model under 10B to score above 1300 on LMArena
Available now on Hugging Face, Kaggle, llama.cpp, Google AI Studio, and more.
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