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[Opinion] Gemma4-12B means that Google is going hard after the market of IoT and mobile and we're helping them
I know it might be a no-brainer in retrospect, but hear me out, y'all, it's not the whole story. [tinfoil-hat] What is the hidden strategic value of Gemma4-12B beyond the stated "laptop friendly" size? Looking at the new architecture one can't help but notice that the potential quality tradeoff of an already small model might be too brutal - all your parameters are now doing work on heterogenous inputs. In the latest benchmarks it appears that Qwen3.5-9B is routinely outperform...
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