Google Open Sources Gemma 3n: The Most Capable Sub-10B Multimodal Model That Runs on Just 2GB RAM

Balancing performance and memory efficiency has long been a challenge for AI models running on edge devices. Google's newly open-sourced Gemma 3n tackles this issue head-on. Designed with an efficient multimodal architecture, Gemma 3n delivers state-of-the-art capabilities while requiring minimal memory-just 2GB or 3GB depending on the variant. It redefines what’s possible for on-device AI. Key Features of Gemma 3n Multimodal from the Ground Up Gemma 3n natively supports i mages, audio, video, and text as input, with text as output. This flexibility makes it an ideal solution for a wide range of applications, from real-time transcription and translation to interactive visual understanding. Built for the Edge Two optimized configurations are available: E2B : 2GB runtime memory, equivalent to 2B effective parameters E4B : 3GB runtime memory, equivalent to 4B effective parameters Although their total parameter counts are 5B and 8B, architecture innovations make their memory requireme...