When you need an AI assistant to run on a phone or light laptop, Gemma 4 is 2026's best pick. Small but capable, and its multimodal support gives you audio and image processing with no cloud.
Edge-class performance
Gemma 4 E4B works well on Jetson Orin Nano (67 TOPS @ 15 W), Mac mini, iPhone and flagship Android phones. 20+ tokens/s, often faster.
Use cases
A personal phone assistant, on-device speech recognition and real-time translation, offline knowledge base on the road, home IoT hub. Excellent as a local-first sync edge node.
Frequently asked
- Does Gemma 4 speak Finnish?
- Limited. For Finnish-language tasks Viking or Poro is a better pick. Gemma is excellent in English and for multimodal use.
Updated 2026-04-21