Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Gemma 4

 Gemma 4 is a family of open-weight, multimodal models by Google DeepMind, available in pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants across five sizes (E2B, E4B, 12B, 26B A4B, and 31B) in both Dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures. Built to run on everything from mobile devices to high-end servers, Gemma 4 is optimized for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and text generation.

Key Features

Multimodal Inputs: Supports text and variable-resolution images across all sizes, plus native video and audio on E2B, E4B, and 12B. Output is text-only.

Expanded Context & Multilingual: Up to 256K context window (128K on smaller models) with support for over 140 languages.

Reasoning & Agents: Features configurable thinking modes, native function calling for autonomous agents, and native system prompt support.

Hybrid Attention: Interleaves local sliding window and full global attention with Proportional RoPE (p-RoPE) and unified Keys/Values to optimize memory and speed for long-context tasks.









Source:  https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it


Building an LLM from scratch

 Great video from Syntax Youtube channel on building an LLM from scratch.


Here is a link to a copy/fork of the code he developed for this exercise.

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Nvidia Jetson Orin

 Below are some great videos on using the Nvidia Jetson Orin

1)

NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano: Secret to Running Ollama on the GPU on Jetpack 7.2, by Paul McWhorter of toptechboy.com



2)

How to Run YOLO 26 Detection Models on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, by Edje Electronics Channel




Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Running Gemma 4 Locally - Notes 2

 Running Gemma 4 Locally - Gathered Notes 2 With 32GB of system RAM and an 8GB VRAM RTX 2060, the best overall options for your setup are ge...