The model, released under the Apache 2.0 license, is another example of how cloud providers are enabling enterprises to run models on local devices for agentic workflows.
June 4, 2026
Google DeepMind’s introduction of Gemma 4 12B indicates that the future of agentic AI is shifting more toward local PCs and less toward the cloud, underscoring that the AI race is still in early stages and the market's direction remains fluid.
Google’s AI lab released the open source model on June 3. It is the latest in the Gemma 4 family of models Google introduced in April. Gemma 4 12B is under the Apache 2.0 license, which gives enterprise developers flexibility and digital control in using, modifying and deploying the model commercially without licensing barriers. Google DeepMind also made Gemma 4 encoder-free, meaning that pictures and videos are directly fed into the multimodal model, with no barrier between the media and the model.
“It helps with the model running very efficiently on limited resources,” said Lian Jye Su, an analyst at Omdia, a division of Informa TechTarget.
