simonwa day ago
I just ran one of these locally on a Mac like this:
uvx litert-lm run \
--from-huggingface-repo=litert-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-litert-lm \
gemma-4-E2B-it.litertlm \
--backend=gpu \
--prompt="Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"
It can handle audio and image input too, which is pretty cool for a 3.2GB model. For images:
uvx litert-lm run \
--from-huggingface-repo=litert-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-litert-lm \
gemma-4-E2B-it.litertlm \
--backend=gpu --vision-backend gpu \
--attachment image.jpg --prompt describe
uvx litert-lm run \
--from-huggingface-repo=litert-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-litert-lm \
gemma-4-E2B-it.litertlm \
--backend=gpu --audio-backend cpu \
--attachment audio.wav --prompt transcribe
reactordev20 hours ago
Not to mention the text-only 0.8GB version. Just crazy. You can have basic real-time conversations on-device that's video and audio aware now.
yalok13 hours ago
0.8GB is for text only. It's more like ~1.1GB if you include video/audio encoder
reactordev35 minutes ago
And your point is what? That’s more than 0.8GB text only if you include more than, text-only?
simonw19 hours ago
Have you seen a 0.8GB model file floating around yet? I couldn't find one earlier.
reactordev18 hours ago
I think this is the one but it’s 0.8GB VRAM not 0.8GB size.
https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it-qat-mobile-ct
But they could be cooking up a smaller one because the model card lists the Q_4 quants as being bigger than the mobile or text-only so I think we’ll need to wait for the Q_2_Distilled_Mobile_Textformer version. Still, just amazing work.
viccis11 hours ago
I'll be honest with you. My main ask for on device AI is that when I am typing "Going out for a quick j" it corrects to "jog" and not "Jonathan". I don't think it needs that many gigabytes.
taffydavid10 hours ago
Who doesn't enjoy a quick Jonathan now and then.
But seriously, wouldn't productive text on a 90s cell phone pass this test?
reactordev6 hours ago
The autocomplete of a decade ago is better than what we have now.
It’s harder now because emojis and draw-to-type as well as pen input. We didn’t have these things 14 years ago when “I’ll be right back” could be expanded from “I’ll b ri ba”
madduci11 hours ago
Where is it? On ollama I see only the bigger one
reactordev34 minutes ago
I don’t use ollama, can you pull from HF?
rcarmo18 hours ago
Is that actually QAT? the MLX Community models have that in their names, but these don't, and the upload dates don't quite line up.
__mharrison__18 hours ago
As an aside uvx is so pleasant to use... I wish Nvidia supported it as first-class rather than making folks jump through Docker hoops.
NamlchakKhandro15 hours ago
I wish people would stop using python sure ai.
It's slow and the PKG resolution is way too flat.
qwertox9 hours ago
What do you use?
satvikpendema day ago
Unsloth's collection as well [0], with their results [1]. Looks like they can get very close to 100% accuracy compared to the BF16 model that is unquantized, and Unsloth's quants are better than the original Google's QAT as posted in the article.
Personal I'm using the 2B model for web search and structured JSON output back via Unsloth Studio and its API, works very well for that even with the model embedded on phones.
llmooratora day ago
you misunderstand what that chart shows - it shows BF16 QAT Q4_0, not BF16 regular.
meaning Google quantized the model to 4 bit and stored the result in BF16 format for compatibility and convenience to downstream packers.
Like storing small 8 bit numbers in full 32 bit integers.
So it's not close to 100% of unquantized BF16.
I'm curious if anybody can explain why Google released 4 bit QAT Q4_0 is not exactly 100% of BF16 QAT Q4_0? seems like it should be just bit twiddling, no further quantization to convert between these two packings. Unsloth talks about "lattice alignment" being an issue.
That being said I hate it that smol model makers, like Google, Qwen, ... only show the BF16 benchmarks when they release a new models, knowing that what people really run are 4-8 bit quantizations, so it's really hard to understand how much you lose when you run 4 bit vs 6 bit...
coder54321 hours ago
> meaning Google quantized the model to 4 bit and stored the result in BF16 format for compatibility and convenience to downstream packers.
You also misunderstand what is happening. Google did not do that. Google further trained the original model with an objective of minimizing error when quantized to 4-bit. The BF16 QAT is not an upscaled 4-bit model. When quantized to 4-bit, it should lose less accuracy than a typical 16-bit model loses when quantized to 4-bit, but the loss is not zero, because it is not based on a 4-bit model.
The Gemma 3 QAT report was a bit clearer:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware...
"Instead of just quantizing the model after it's fully trained, QAT incorporates the quantization process during training. QAT simulates low-precision operations during training to allow quantization with less degradation afterwards for smaller, faster models while maintaining accuracy. Diving deeper, we applied QAT on ~5,000 steps using probabilities from the non-quantized checkpoint as targets. We reduce the perplexity drop by 54% (using llama.cpp perplexity evaluation) when quantizing down to Q4_0."
The BF16 is just trained to be more resistant to simulated quantization, which helps when it is actually quantized. Google is not doing post-training on the 4-bit model directly.
3abiton17 hours ago
Are there evidence that this approach helps maintain "accuracy" performance when quantized? It sounds a bit like mxfp4 with gpt-oss, which was a confusing model upon release.
dofm19 minutes ago
I have just been humbled by the Gemma 4 26B QAT build (unsloth's version), which insisted repeatedly that I am wrong in my requirements for some niche wordpress code, which cannot be satisfied.
I am a good WP developer so I kept prodding it and it kept insisting, and it explained with clarity. Turns out it is right and I was wrong, as I would have found out if I'd written the code myself.
I've been using this particular test for days, experimenting in ways to generate and prompt code. The 4-bit quantisation of the pre-QAT model does not catch this error. And nor can the Qwen 3.6 sparse model, which confidently blazed past it and never mentioned it.
(FWIW neither did plain ChatGPT; maybe Codex would)
Anecdotal, but there you go. I am somewhat weirded out by it.
ComputerGuru18 hours ago
So what we want now is unsloth (or anyone) to release 4/6-bit quantized models of these releases?
coder54318 hours ago
Yep, Unsloth already did, as linked in the comment at the top of this thread
satvikpendema day ago
Ah I see, thanks for the clarification.
mft_9 hours ago
Is this [0] saying that unsloth's versions of Google's QAT models are better than Google's own QAT models? Or am I not understanding it correctly?
ComputerGuru2 hours ago
It's saying it's better than naively truncating the QAT release to 4 bits.
scosman16 hours ago
Google's QAT claims to need 6.7 GB RAM, vs Unsloth's dynamic quants at 8GB. Would love to see some benchmarks. Both amazing for size.
slopinthebaga day ago
I'm confused, the unsloth model is ~600mb and the one from google is 7gb?
overfeeda day ago
One is quantized, the other one is Quantization-ready.
jhatax19 hours ago
It’s the Friday before WWDC during which Apple is going to announce an “improved” Siri based on Google models (a locked partnership, for now). Maybe it’s a coincidence, but this might be Google releasing models that will be showcased next week by Apple?
No knowledge, just speculation.
illusive408013 hours ago
As an amateur app dev using on device AI: If they replace Apple Foundation model with Gemma 4 I would be so happy.
itake2 hours ago
I’m curious like what performance if we met you would expect and why?
trollbridge14 hours ago
Maybe Siri will become capable of doing what I can do on my Mac with llamafile and a few minutes of work...
jbarrow20 hours ago
Very impressed with how much the Gemma ecosystem has advanced just this week.
Gemma 12B, multitoken prediction, and official quants released. Feels like Google is putting real effort into this string of releases, and I'm very excited to see that!
arjun-mavonic43 minutes ago
Yet to try this. But from what I heard from a friend is that Gemma 4 12b calls same tool’s repeatedly. Maybe harness can be made to handle it.
minimaxira day ago
It's a bit awkward to release Gemma 4 12B (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385906), and then a canonical Q4_0 Gemma 4 12B a couple days later.
It's good that this post lists the expected VRAM usage for the models with Q4_0 Gemma 4 12B being 6.7GB, which will indeed fit Google's claims of fitting within 16GB comfortably, altough it confirms that only the quantized version will do so.
Relatedly, in Google's newly released Edge Gallery for macOS, Gemma 4 12B is explicitly listed as unsupported due to not enough RAM even on a 16GB machine, but given the expected VRAM usage here the Q4_0 variant definitely should fit and Google should fix that.
Aurornisa day ago
I'm not sure why you think it's awkward to have multiple releases. It's better to release models and variations as they're ready, not withhold them all until everything is ready to release all at once.
The Q4_0 is a quantization aware training checkpoint. It's not a simple quantization of the original Gemma 4 12B.
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netdura day ago
not sure if I understand you, but 4Q and QAT 4Q are different
refulgentisa day ago
It's super annoying when you have products that utilize these because there's...4? releases in 3 weeks?
- Gemma 4 2B/4B/27BE3B/31B
- Gemma 4 2B/4B/27BE3B/31B x "assistant" / MTP drafter models (i.e. multitoken prediction)
- Gemma 4 12B (2 days ago? 1?)
- Gemma 4 QAT 2B/4B/12B/27BE3B/31B x "assistant" models (i.e. multitoken prediction)
It probably sounds silly and really whiny in the abstract. It just causes a ton of work / confusion downstream that feels unnecessary.
Extremely glad for the output, not glad to have to chase it.
ex. llama.cpp currently supports the originals but not the MTP predictors but there is a patch for the MTP predictors but not for the small MoE models and I think it supports the 12B but maybe not media for it yet and now we have these too and the blog says there's GGUFs (llama.cpp models) but there isn't in any of the 12? repos I clicked through. and ~every consumer-facing local LLM app is built on llama.cpp or a fork of it.
Also if anyone at Google is taking feedback over to b/ or product, pleaseeee stop the "E"2B "E"4B thing, unless it's actually taking up less RAM on Android during CPU inference. I can't tell if I need to treat the 4B like an 8B (i.e. beyond most consumer hardware without a GPU) or a 4B (i.e. will run on most consumer hardware since 2021)
EDIT: And, yes, the QAT 12B x mmproj does not work with llama.cpp. I'm glad there's people who have the luxury of not having to, well, actually use these and treat me as whining :) I'll need to schedule another 4-8 hours of work for the 4th time, no fun!
ddarolfia day ago
These models aren't products? They are open source ish (open weight I guess), research outputs. While the naming scheme may be confusing, it is relevant and important. I believe it's on you to understand it.
sumedh17 hours ago
> I believe it's on you to understand it.
This is exactly why Google has 10 messenger Apps.
nolist_policy9 hours ago
Google released their latest messenger app 9 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chat
refulgentisa day ago
I understand it. :)
And you're absolutely right to point out they aren't products - I hoped that was clear - when you're building a product with them, you end up having to do the same build loop 4 times, in this instance :)
overfeed21 hours ago
You can stop after the first one. Choosing to repeat the process is on you, and probably because you see some benefit in using the variant(s) you build on top of.
ddarolfi21 hours ago
Yes my framing was a little confusing. You were clear in that you are building products on them. I was more saying that because these gemma models are not products, and instead research outputs, the naming scheme should be more scientific rather than consumer friendly.
satvikpendema day ago
Just use Unsloth Studio it supports them all.
taffydavid9 hours ago
Noob q: can advancements like this targeted at local inference have bonus effects for cloud inference? Presumably if you can get great results on cheaper hardware that also equates to less resource usage on cutting edge hardware, and less power draw?
Will advancements like this ultimately reduce the carbon footprint of AI?
goldenarm8 hours ago
Consumer and server hardware are quite different, especially Google's TPUs. They notably have much larger mixture-of-experts ratios and more complex caching systems. At such scale and inference budgets, they are incentivised to optimize as much as possible.
Also Google Deepmins has a six month embargo on strategic papers, so I bet the juiciest quantization tech isn't public yet.
RandyOrion11 hours ago
From the perspective of a local llm user, I think the qat doesn't solve the major problem of the gemma models.
Gemma family (gen 1 to gen 4) is consistent with extreme range of activations, i.e., 600000, essentially forcing people to use bf16 kv cache and accept a short context window, e.g., 31b, iq4_xs quantization, 100k context window on 32gb memory. Or, people use q8 kv cache, 200k context window, and accept a large performance penalty.
In contrast, for qwen 3.5 family, the largest activation is below 2000, making q8 or even lower-precision kv cache essentially free estates. Together with linear attention, which doesn't require kv cache, full 262k context window can be easily reached.
Qat training with w4a16 target, while improving performance on inference with low-precision weighs, doesn't solve kv cache problem at all.
In the end, a qat is a qat, and there are unseen efforts behind qat checkpoints. Thank you gemma team for releasing qat checkpoints.
RandyOrion11 hours ago
More rants about local inference, consider yourself warned.
Together with bf16 related deliberate hardward degrades on consumer-level nvidia gpus, i.e., gtx 10, rtx 20, 30, 40, 50 series, things gets sour really quickly.
Catloafdev21 hours ago
Being able to run the 12B on 8gb VRAM is huge. It's crazy to see how fast these small local models have evolved.
jack_pp17 hours ago
Ran hf.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf:Q4_0 with ollama on a AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (8 GB), 14 GB RAM laptop and it is suprisingly fast
netdura day ago
had a good run with Gemma 4 E2B Unsloth 4Q: https://youtube.com/shorts/XLsAnz5aAAI
The E4B model doesn’t fit on my phone TPU, so it swaps to RAM, the QAT version means more accuracy, good!
ComputerGuru18 hours ago
How were you getting anything useful out of that? We found the (unquantized!) E2B model to be completely useless at even the simplest real-world classification tasks.
prism5620 hours ago
How do you know it swaps to ram vs on the TPU?
Would be interested in testing this on my pixel.
netdur4 hours ago
Because TPU has 2GB and weight + context needs more
WhiteDawna day ago
Once someone generates a MTP layer for 26B A4B 4 QAT I'll be singing from the hills with my 5 year old GPU.
pfheatwole18 hours ago
Models:
- Safetensors: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-un...
- GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF/tree/...
Note the README in the Unsloth list of files: llama.cpp is working on a PR to support the gemma4 drafters: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23398. Also note the PR submitter didn't experience much speedup with 26B (seems typical that MoE models don't generally benefit from MTP).
dist-epocha day ago
Google already did
https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-un...
dofma day ago
This is safetensors. Is there any way to run these on a Mac paired with the MLX QAT?
(Pardon my ignorance; this stuff moves so fast)
thangalin19 hours ago
Did you see this?
https://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/
Xeon, but could be useful for MTP on Mac.
dofm19 hours ago
I hadn't seen this, thanks.
I do have the Qwen 3.6 (35B) MTP implementation running (in LM Studio; it doesn't need a separate drafter), along with non-MTP Gemma 4 26B, and I can see that Unsloth Studio can run the new QAT, but I can't see how you can run the assistant/drafter. Yet.
It's just a constantly changing landscape. Don't get me wrong, it's fascinating and for various reasons I am pleased I can keep up even slightly, but eeeehhh :-)
int_19h17 hours ago
dofm11 hours ago
Yeah — that is the base QAT model, and there are safetensors weights for the QAT version of the MTP drafter, but there are no MLX/GGUF versions. I think the answer is a combination of:
1) Gemma 4 MTP is too fresh for off-the-shelf software to use anyway
2) "you can convert them yourself" which is fine, obvs
somewhatrandom9a day ago
Could these quantized models make MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) significantly faster when used as drafters for larger regular Gemma 4 models?
dist-epocha day ago
Google already released specialized drafters for Gemma 4.
Havoc18 hours ago
The E2B ones? Or what do you mean by specialized drafters?
int_19h16 hours ago
They have -assistant in the name, so e.g.: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it-assistant
Havoc8 hours ago
Thanks
girvo16 hours ago
The “-assistant” models released by Google are specialised tiny MTP draft models :)
31b-it-assistant is what enables MTP
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nicman2310 hours ago
the new 4 12b model replaced qwen3.6 27b for me. the task i am doing is a bit specific, validating if a stamp has the correct name but the ones that it could not see maybe a 30 percent were easily discerned.
superkuh15 hours ago
I wish they would release the base (non instruction tuned) models for use with pattern completion.
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cr3cr3a day ago
For a moment I got excited thinking QAT is Intel Quick Assist Technology...
razighter777a day ago
Same I had to do a double take. Would be pretty humourous if they somehow took advantage of crypto offloading to accelerate ai inference
nazgul1716 hours ago
I don't see these QAT models on Edge Gallery; just the BF16 models are there. Is there anything I am missing?
zkmona day ago
How can the smaller Unsloth GGUF quant can beat the original google quant? (ref: unsloth/gemma-4-31B-it-qat-GGUF)
SubiculumCode12 hours ago
I may be wrong, but this is what I figured out. Google provided these quantize-ready models, but they do not come pre-quantized. However, to produce their benchmarks, they quantized their model using the standard quantization approach. Unsloth has an advanced quantization method that performs better than the standard quantization, so the evals are better for unsloth quants.
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Kylejeong2117 hours ago
google pixel intelligence may beat apple intelligence
redox99a day ago
I was just testing Gemma E2B and E4B yesterday, and they are just too dumb to be useful outside of niche use cases.
Besides, there's no good agent on Android. Having a model that can't run web searches and browse websites is limited in use, particularly small models that really need to be grounded on search results to be factual, because they can't memorize enough.
Edit: I'd like to know what kind of usage the people that seem to disagree and downvoted this are having.
ilaksh21 hours ago
I think that's probably true for the vast majority of Android phones. But if you have a SOTA expensive beast, I wonder if Gemma 4 12B at 4 bit could work? Maybe something like a Redmagic 11 pro or OnePlus 13 running NanoClaw?
But also maybe a few Qwen 3.6 or Qwen 3.5 variants can fit and can handle some simple tasks.
redox9920 hours ago
I think Gemma 4 12B is definitely possible to run on high end phones, google claims you need 16GB of memory. But it's probably not very usable, you'll need to swap most stuff other than the LLM.
When I tried E2B and E4B with Google Edge Gallery, and added a web search skill from the skill list, E2B would fail (get stuck in a loop), E4B would need a very specific instruction, "weather in [city name]" would not call the web search tool, I'd need "web search weather in [city name]". And the result was completely hallucinated and impossible. It claimed 14c and feels like 4c (which is impossible), and 10% humidity (which is almost impossible in this city)
Asking wikipedia level history questions (without any tool use), the results were awful as well.
satvikpendem20 hours ago
I'm running a service in production using Gemma 4 models, to get structured JSON output back from web search tool calls using Unsloth Studio and its API, but it did require a rather large and detailed system prompt and tool call healing if the format wasn't JSON for example (retries, reprompting with feeding the error back into the model, etc, this is also what Unsloth Studio does for its self-healing tool call feature). But once I did that, it's been working quite well and on benchmarks I've made, it's about 97% accurate after the first time and basically 100% accurate after retries.
This is running on a server though, not sure how well it'd work on a phone, I should try that. I used AI Edge Gallery on Android and it doesn't seem too good at the web search tool but maybe the web search tool itself, being a community made tool, is pretty bad, because tool calling via Unsloth Studio seems to work just fine with the exact same Gemma models on desktop/server vs the phone.
redox9919 hours ago
I agree that the web search tool probably is pretty bad. However a smart model would never hallucinate impossible weather data if the search tool failed.
I'm sure you can get some out of it if you babysit it with an optimized prompt, harness, etc and you can tolerate some failures. But when I try to run the ChatGPT prompts from my history, even if I pick the easier ones, it's hopeless.
I'd like to have a local agent on the phone with wikipedia level knowledge. But you probably need more like 30B params.
satvikpendem19 hours ago
I use the 4B on my phone and it seems to work fine without tool calls. So it's definitely an issue with that and not the model itself. I'll play around and see if I can fix that, you might also try using the Searxng MCP as it's a better web search engine one.
redox9919 hours ago
I tried most prompts that didn't rely on recent knowledge on the basic "AI Chat", not the "Agent skills" version.
I just tested "List the 5 most recent Argentina vice presidents" on E4B and it literally got all 5 wrong
satvikpendem19 hours ago
I use it for recommendations rather than knowledge, like recipes or basic stuff like that rather than knowledge, I mean it's likely due to its knowledge cutoff so it's not necessarily accurate. But the agent skills section does have a query Wikipedia tool call.
Try this on Unsloth Studio, they seem to have fixed Gemma tool calling.
redox9919 hours ago
Argentina vice presidents span from 2007 to 2023. Knowledge cutoff cant explain getting all 5 of them wrong.
Melatonic18 hours ago
What did it say were the presidents from those years?
redox9916 hours ago
It can answer presidents fine. It fails for vice presidents.
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As of my last update, here are the five most recent individuals to have served as Vice President of Argentina:
Sergio Massa (Served as Vice President from 2019 to 2023)
Martín Lousteau (Served as Vice President from 2015 to 2019)
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Served as Vice President from 2007 to 2015)
Néstor Kirchner (Served as Vice President from 2003 to 2007)
Eduardo Duhalde (Served as Vice President from 1999 to 2003)
Note on the list: The term "most recent" can be interpreted in two ways:
Most recent to have served: This list follows that interpretation, showing the last five people who held the office.
Most recent current officeholders: If you are asking for the current Vice President, that position is currently held by Juan Manuel Moreno (who was appointed in 2024).
If you are looking for the current Vice President, please let me know!
refulgentisa day ago
@google.com'ers, there are no GGUFs (blog says there is)
minimaxira day ago
Isn’t this it? https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf
refulgentisa day ago
Ah, nice, ty! My excuse is those repos were added to the collection after my comment, but perhaps not :3
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steno13220 hours ago
I don't get this obsession with smaller models. I've been using Claude and GPT models for years and have had zero issues with them.
I see absolutely no benefit to me as a end user for a local model which is going to take up more of my CPU and memory and slow down my machine. I almost always have Internet and if I don't then not having access to a AI model is the least of my concerns.
sowbug23 minutes ago
Whatever you're doing, try doing 500 or 1,000 of it in a batch. You'll exhaust any subscription quota you have, or if you're paying per token, you will probably find it too expensive. That's when you'll start to ask "how smart a model do I really need for this job?", and you'll investigate running a small but sufficiently capable model on your own PC, churning overnight through your 1,000 tasks.
adam_arthur20 hours ago
The entire universe of automation projects that can be run effectively for free relative to SoTA models?
I don't think many realize that most LLM embedded automation, pipelines, products will soon be able to run extremely cheaply on models < 100B parameters.
Frontier models will be used for coding/creation use cases, yes. But for all the pseudo-deterministic, pipeline, analysis style things there will be no practical benefit to running frontier models, only additional cost.
Gemma 4 26B outperforms most 100-200B models that I've tested for reasoning and structured output.
Gemma 4 12B can consistently select where to click on browser images given a minimal prompt, and do so very quickly.
dofm20 hours ago
The 26B model is really surprising, and it is impressively concise — it spends a lot less time dithering than Qwen3.6.
steno13220 hours ago
Practically if you're running a small personal automation project you're not going to want to waste a lot of time configuring and tuning a local model. You want to build the automation and move on.
If you're building a automation as a company you definitely won't want to take on the long term maintenance overhead of running your own models for some automation project.
adam_arthur20 hours ago
These small models exist in the cloud and are/will be priced commensurately to their size.
Your claim is effectively that companies don't care about operational/cloud costs. Even pre-LLM, companies regularly assessed and tried to pare down cloud spend.
mikeocool20 hours ago
> I've been using Claude and GPT models for years
All 3 years?
steno13220 hours ago
GPT1 was released in 2018, so yes, since then.
victorbjorklundan hour ago
GPT1 was way worse than small Gemma’s are now.
Zambyte20 hours ago
I like using my computer.
steno13220 hours ago
Exactly, thank you, we are on the same page! It's great to be able to use our own devices and not have their compute coopted by a third party.
I'd rather not have intensive compute needed shifted onto my personal machine which I want to use for something else.
satvikpendem20 hours ago
By that logic, any software you run that isn't fully built by yourself is "third party" therefore you shouldn't run anything at all on your machine, thus obviating the need for it entirely.
steno13220 hours ago
But practically AI inference requires substantial local computing resources. It's not some web app, it's a order of magnitude more compute needed
Zambyte20 hours ago
Hopefully now you understand why people want smaller models.
satvikpendem20 hours ago
Not really, I run a production service on a basic server using these Gemma models, the server is weaker than my MacBook. Most people's laptops and even phones actually can run local models, most simply don't know how. Run Unsloth Studio and you'll see how easy it is.
As the sibling says this is why people want smaller but still performant models.
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Zambyte20 hours ago
I am not a "third party" on my own computer.
user272220 hours ago
There is tinfoil.sh as well but honestly running this stuff on an airgapped server allows a better peace of mind about the data being used for something else.
steno13220 hours ago
What's wrong with the data being used for something else? Someone is providing digital intelligence to us, saving us many hours a week, so the least we can do is provide them a little data so they are able to improve their service.
It would be selfish and unethical not to in my view. And ultimately the data is just being used in order to improve the models and benefit us, not for anything nefarious.
NicuCalcea18 hours ago
If sharing our data is the least we can do, they shouldn't also ask us for our money. Otherwise, it's more than the least.
mannanj20 hours ago
I don't like the gaslighting of paying Anthropic or Open(Closed)AI and it being said its unsustainable for them to take my payment while simultaneously they take my data (edit: which is incredibly valuable) and I cannot opt out of that.
The obsession is for leaving hostile and abusive entities, the corporations or the people who fund them that have a horrible track record in regards to ethicality, rights and respect & human dignity.
steno13220 hours ago
My view is, if you're going to use the service - you should give the data.
It's like using Gmail and expecting them not to train their AI models on your data - how can you expect that when they're giving you a secure, reliable, highly functional email client completely for free?
The digital economy only works if everyone pays their fair share. If you don't want to give your data then you are really harming everyone by slowing down AI development for everyone else.
klardotsh20 hours ago
Because we pay for the models.
If I pay you for a service, what implicit right should you have to then continue to profit in perpetuity by storing the data I paid you to process?
If LLMs were free your Gmail analogy might hold up. They aren’t, and so it doesn’t.
AI development can continue with the data folks opt into, or with the data AI companies incessantly scrape with reckless disregard for polite system loads. AI development does not require retaining all user inputs forever.
mannanj19 hours ago
However, you didn't actually get what I meant down, so you ended up inadvertently Straw Manning me.
My disinterest is in sharing my intellectual IP. Most people up to now, have never shared this much of their intellectual IP with a company. Name one product through human history before that got this much data and insight into human thinking and now can use your most intimate conversations, ideas and needs for non-training purposes?
You can't even opt out of that! At least for the training data you can opt-out.
satvikpendem12 hours ago
Intellectual "property" is not real property. While I disagree with the parent on many things as my comments show, IP is not one of them. Information should be free, for anyone and everyone.
mannanj3 hours ago
Another straw man.
"real" property or not. You agree that we have some right to our own outputs, right? Is that not dignity, to say "I want my outputs protected".
Seems like you think that your ideas should be free, as you called it information. How about you back that up with action... please send me all your most intimate, valuable ideas. Oh no, you don't feel comfortable? Then why are you sharing it with companies?
mannanj19 hours ago
Apple is a good example of ethical services. They still give you privacy and ownership of your data, you keep your dignity and data. Google is a horrible model for this - it matches the whole thing about unethical, abusive, gaslighting relationships I described.
satvikpendem11 hours ago
The same Apple that takes 30% of all transactions? In reality no corporation is in the public interest.
mannanj3 hours ago
straw man. I'm talking about data.