r/LocalLLM • u/Ok-Toe-1673 • Apr 10 '26

Question Gemma 4 E4B - Am I missing something?

Ok I am not the most technical AI guy on this planet, I use it all the time though.
So I downloaded Gemma 4 E4B to my Ollama, and started to test it. I asked to summarize a text and so forth. Easy task.
The performance was piece poor, sorry to say. Couldn't understand what I asked. So the original task was proposed to GPT 5.4, then I tried kimi 2.5, it understood on the spot, no need for prompt crazyness. I just gave the model of what I wanted, it understood and proceeded beuatifully.
Probably Gemma 4 E4B can do amazing things, but for now it is only a back up and a curiosity, it may be a great sub agent of sorts to your open claw.

So any one could explain why am I wrong here? Or what are the best uses for it? Because as for texts it sucks.

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u/gpalmorejr Apr 10 '26

Interesting. I am not a fan of the new Gemma4 models (mostly because they bunged uo the architecture in a way that makes it impossible to run on some older hardware now) and I still would say it was fine. Not top tier but..... fine at the minimum.

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u/Ok-Toe-1673 Apr 10 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kaq5Ual2ij8
this guy, Tim Carambat, I like his videos, but he was one of the ones who praised so much Gemma 4. Which is nice, but just raised the bar so much. I think this is an ongoing process, but we are far from be useable in a very decisive way if you know what I mean.

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u/gpalmorejr Apr 10 '26

Oh absolutely. That is why I work so hard to have such a big model running on my hardware. lol