What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic?

Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic requires approximately 40.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic and how large is it?

Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic is developed by blascotobasco, a model with 26b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic?

Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic by blascotobasco — VRAM 40.2GB

Name: Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic
Author: blascotobasco

Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic is an open-source language model by blascotobasco. Features: 26b LLM, VRAM: 40.2GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Base model:coder3101/gemma-4-2... Base model:finetune:coder3101/... Gemma4 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/blascotobasco/Gemma-4-96E-A4B-Heretic

Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 96E A4B Heretic
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/blascotobasco/Gemma-4-96E-A4B-Heretic
Base Model(s)	Gemma 4 26B A4B It Heretic coder3101/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic
Model Size	26b
Required VRAM	40.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	blascotobasco
Model Type	gemma4
Model Files	38.2 GB: 1-of-2 2.0 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
Transformers Version	5.5.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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