Google officially releases Gemma 3n

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Gemma 3n officially released — E2B runs in about 2 GB and E4B in about 3 GB of memory; takes image, audio, video and text input; E4B is the first model under 10 billion parameters to pass 1300 points on LMArena

Why it matters

A milestone at which small, on-device-class models began to combine multimodality with competitive benchmark scores

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Officialdevelopers.googleblog.comhttps://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide/

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