Google Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct

Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct is an open-weight, instruction-tuned model from Google DeepMind, released in April 2026 as part of the Gemma 4 family. Unlike its dense siblings, it uses a Mixture-of-Experts design: of its roughly 26 billion total parameters, only about 4 billion activate per token, so all weights load into memory while inference stays fast. Google describes it as running almost as quickly as a 4B dense model.

Compared to same-family predecessors, this model advances on several fronts. Where the earlier [[sibling:google-gemma-3-27b-it|Google Gemma 3 27B Instruct]] used a dense architecture, Gemma 4 introduces MoE variants alongside dense ones, plus built-in configurable reasoning modes and video input. Its context window reaches 256K tokens, and multilingual coverage spans over 140 languages.

Within Gemma 4 itself, the 26B A4B is positioned as the throughput-optimized counterpart to the dense [[sibling:google-gemma-4-31b-it|Google Gemma 4 31B Instruct]]. Sparse activation reduces compute per token relative to the dense 31B while aiming for comparable quality.

Both target consumer GPUs and workstations. It supports text, image, and video input natively, with audio featured on the smaller family members rather than this size. Its listed capabilities include reasoning, vision, function calling, and web search, offered as an open-weight, multilingual option.

Sources

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | Google Cloud Documentation· docs.cloud.google.comgoogle/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it · Hugging Face· huggingface.co

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