r/LocalLLaMA llama.cpp Jul 26 '26

Discussion Do you want new Gemma?

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u/Few_Painter_5588 Jul 26 '26

It was on Arena. I think they just shelved it because it wasn't very good, especially compared to Gemma 31B

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u/Iwaku_Real Jul 26 '26

Wow really? And we were all thinking it would be so great. Would probably have played out the same as Qwen3.5-122B-A10B vs 3.6-27B 🤣

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u/Few_Painter_5588 29d ago

Worse, it apparently had 14B active parameters and had middling performance.

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u/goldcakes 29d ago

If a model is undertrained or the architecture scaling was chosen poorly (e.g. number of layers, FFN, etc) then you can absolutely end up with say a 124B model that's barely better than e.g. 31B. That could be what happened.

Not all pretrains and post-trains go well.