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Gemma 3 12B
Model family: gemma-3
The 12B Gemma 3 — a single-GPUThe specialized chip that runs most AI models. Originally designed for 3D graphics, GPUs turned out to be excellent at the math AI requires. Nvidia dominates the AI GPU market; common datacenter models include the H100, H200, and B200. Running an AI model without a GPU is possible but painfully slow for anything but the smallest models. mid-size under the custom Gemma Terms of Use, superseded by Gemma 4.
Identity
- Creator
- Model family
- gemma-3
- Release date
- 2025-03-11
Technical specs
- Parameter count
- 12B
- Context window
- 131K tokens
- Modalities
- Image Input
- Text
- Primary capabilities
- Chat
- Instruction Following
- Multilingual
- Reasoning
- Vision
License
- License
- Gemma Terms of Use
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Terms
- Modification ✓
- Redistribution ✓
- Attribution ✓
Access
- Openness
- Open Weight
- Access methods
- Local Runtime Llama Cpp
- Local Runtime Lm Studio
- Local Runtime Ollama
- Local Runtime Vllm
- Weights Download Hf
- Cost tier
- Mixed
Sources
- llm
- open-weight
- commercial-friendly
- mid-size
- multimodal
- self-hostable
- us-based
- gemma-terms