Tech Briefing - 2026-04-05

Gemma 4 Release — Google's Strongest Open Model Yet [AINews, TLDR] Google released Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0, available in 4 sizes: E2B, E4B, 26B-A4B MoE, and 31B dense. Multimodal (text + vision + audio), 256K context, hybrid sliding-window + global attention, native function calling. Day-0 ecosystem support across vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, Unsloth, Hugging Face. Running benchmarks: 26B-A4B achieves 162 tok/s on RTX 4090; 260K native context. Known issues: llama.cpp tokenizer bugs causing broken output (multiple…