Technical essay
What Gemma 4 Reveals About Where Open Model Design is Heading: Part 1
A visual, systems-level breakdown of Gemma 4 architecture choices and what they suggest about open model design.
- gemma
- llm-architecture
- open-models
- multimodal
Gemma 4 is useful not only as a model release, but as a signal of where open model architecture is heading. This article looks at the system choices behind the release and what they imply for practitioners building with open models.
The published version contains the complete visual and architectural walkthrough.