Gemma 4 - Google's New Open LLM
Announced at Google I/O 2025, Gemma 4 is Google's most powerful open large language model. It is available on Hugging Face, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI in 2B, 9B and 27B parameter variants.
Key Features of Gemma 4
- 140+ language support - including Georgian
- 128K token context window - analyze long documents
- Multimodal capabilities - text and image processing
- Instruction - tuned variant
- Fully open license - commercial use allowed
Gemma 4 vs Gemini
| Feature | Gemini | Gemma 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | Closed-source API | Open source |
| Deployment | Google's servers | Your own server |
| Cost | Per API call | Free (self-hosted) |
| Control | Limited | Full |
Gemma 4 is designed for developers who need full control over the model.
Business Use Cases
Companies use Gemma 4 for customer-support chatbots, document summarization, RAG systems, code generation and sentiment analysis.
Gemma 4 on Google Cloud Vertex AI
Vertex AI offers full Gemma 4 management: fine-tuning, deployment, monitoring and API access. Geosoft Cloud helps with Gemma 4 integration on Vertex AI.