What are the hardware requirements for Gemma 4 12B It Assistant?

Gemma 4 12B It Assistant requires approximately 0.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

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

Gemma 4 12B It Assistant is developed by google, 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 It Assistant?

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

Gemma 4 12B It Assistant by google — VRAM 0.8GB

Name: Gemma 4 12B It Assistant
Author: google

Gemma 4 12B It Assistant is an open-source language model by google. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 0.8GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.36.

Arxiv:2607.02770 Any-to-any Endpoints compatible Gemma4 unified assistant Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-assistant

Gemma 4 12B It Assistant Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Gemma 4 12B It Assistant
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-assistant
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	0.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	google
Model Type	gemma4_unified_assistant
Model Files	0.8 GB
Model Architecture	Gemma4UnifiedAssistantForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.10.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>

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Quantized Models of the Gemma 4 12B It Assistant

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...Qat Q4 0 Unquantized Assistant	20	94280	0 GB

Best Alternatives to Gemma 4 12B It Assistant

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...Qat Q4 0 Unquantized Assistant	0K / 0.8 GB	94280	20
...ma 4 12B It Qat Assistant 4bit	0K / 0.2 GB	1536	3