Google released Gemma 4 12B for local AI on laptops

Google launched Gemma 4 12B, an open-weights multimodal model designed to run locally on consumer laptops instead of always needing cloud inference. This is important because the industry is moving toward hybrid AI: some workloads local, some cloud.

Why this matters:

Better privacy Lower inference costs Faster local dev/testing for AI apps Useful for developers building offline-first AI tools or desktop agents