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Gemma 4 26B A4B

Gemma 4 26B A4B is an open-weight language model from Google DeepMind, released on April 2, 2026. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 25.2B total parameters, of which 3.8B are active for each token. Google DeepMind lists a context window of 256K tokens. The model accepts text and image input.

Developer
Google DeepMind
Released
April 2, 2026
Total parameters
25.2B
Active parameters per token
3.8B
Architecture
MoE
Context window
256K
Input
Text, image
License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Yes
Official weights, GB
51.6 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
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The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.

The official weights on Hugging Face take about 51.6 GB in BF16. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.

Total parameters, billions
25.2B
Active parameters, billions
3.8B
Context window, tokens
256K
License type
Apache 2.0
License conditions
Apache 2.0: keep the license and notices; no limits on field of use or number of users. Gemma 4 is the first Gemma generation under Apache 2.0; earlier versions used the Gemma Terms of Use.
Weights precision
BF16
Official quantized or alternative versions
google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf; google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized
License text
ai.google.dev
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it/raw/main/README.md
blog.google announcementhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/
opensource.googleblog.com announcementhttps://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/03/gemma-4-expanding-the-gemmaverse-with-apache-20.html
Hugging Face APIhttps://huggingface.co/api/models?author=google&search=gemma-4
Hugging Face weights indexhttps://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json
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