Gemma 4 12B: Free Local AI Model for Your Laptop

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 6 June 2026


Meta pushes facial recognition to smart glasses, raising GDPR alarms across Europe

Alphabet raises eighty billion dollars to fund AI infrastructure build-out

Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal AI model for laptops

IBM commits ten billion dollars to deliver fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029

Try it yourself: Gemma 4 12B runs free and offline on your laptop via Ollama

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