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Google makes LiteRT-LM generally available (GA)

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LiteRT-LM generally available (GA) — added a native Swift API for iOS and a WebGPU-accelerated JavaScript API. Supports Android CPU, OpenCL GPU and NPU, iOS Metal and browser WebGPU. With Gemma 4: 52 tok/s decode on Android GPU, 56 tok/s on iOS GPU, 76 tok/s on the web on a MacBook Pro M4 Max, up to 2.2× with Multi-Token Prediction, 607MB of memory on iOS

Why it matters

The stage at which an on-device runtime covers not just mobile OSes but browsers with the same stack. Figures are the vendor's own measurements

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Officialdevelopers.googleblog.comhttps://developers.googleblog.com/blazing-fast-on-device-genai-with-litert-lm/

Added in Week 36, 2026 · See that week

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  1. Previous stopGoogle releases Gemma 4 as an AICore developer preview
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  3. Next stopApple expands the Foundation Models framework at WWDC 2026
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