EP341: Gemma 4 brings thinking mode to laptops

Title: Gemma 4 Technical ReportSource: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02770v1Summary:This report details Gemma 4, introducing a native thinking mode that allows models to generate structured reasoning traces before responding to queries. It also presents novel compute-efficient Mixture-of-Experts architectures and a unified, encoder-free framework for multimodal ingestion, establishing key primitives for next-generation open models.