What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 12B Aether?

Gemma 4 12B Aether requires approximately 23.9 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Gemma 4 12B Aether and how large is it?

Gemma 4 12B Aether is developed by emkey1, a model with 12b 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 12B Aether?

Gemma 4 12B Aether is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Gemma 4 12B Aether by emkey1 — VRAM 23.9GB

Name: Gemma 4 12B Aether
Author: emkey1

Gemma 4 12B Aether is an open-source language model by emkey1. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 23.9GB, License: apache-2.0.

Aether Base model:finetune:google/gem... Base model:google/gemma-4-12b-... Code Conversational En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Gemma4 Gemma4 unified Image-text-to-text Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/emkey1/Gemma-4-12B-Aether

Gemma 4 12B Aether Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 12B Aether
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/emkey1/Gemma-4-12B-Aether
Base Model(s)	Gemma 4 12B It google/gemma-4-12B-it
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	23.9 GB
Updated	2026-11-05
Maintainer	emkey1
Model Type	gemma4_unified
Model Files	23.9 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.10.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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