Gemma 4 Just Dropped. It's the Sharpest Tool in the Shed. Do You Have a Plan?
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Google released Gemma 4 on April 2nd — four models, Apache 2.0 licensed, running locally on your phone, your Raspberry Pi, your laptop. The 26B MoE model hits 88.3% on AIME 2026 with only 3.8B active parameters. The 31B Dense is the #3 open model in the world right now. 256K context window. Native vision and audio. 140+ languages. Offline. Near-zero latency. This is genuinely incredible. And it's exactly where things get dangerous. The Power Tool Problem I've spent 35+ years man