Open weights and open ledgers now carry the deployment decision
Gemma 4, Codex pay-as-you-go and OpenAI $122 billion round, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
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Gemma 4
DEPLOYif you run models on your own hardware
WHAT SHIPPEDGemma 4 ships in four sizes: Effective 2B, Effective 4B, 26B MoE, and 31B Dense. The 31B ranks #3 among open models on the Arena AI text leaderboard, and the 26B ranks #6. The 26B MoE activates only 3.8 billion parameters during inference.
THE CATCHThe edge models run offline on phones, Raspberry Pi, and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano with near-zero latency, and Android developers can prototype agentic flows in the AICore Developer Preview today.
IF YOU RUNa local code assistant or agentic workflow on a laptop GPU or workstation
SOURCEGoogle DeepMind, Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
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