Re:Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
by sourcecodeplz on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @10:21PM
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Any Gemma 4 model, they are great at translations, multilingual
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Re:Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
by silversmith on Thursday June 04, 2026 @01:26AM
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For the biggest languages, Spanish, French, maybe.
For smaller ones like my native Latvian, the output could be confused for good translation from across the room, the words do look like Latvian words. But the quality is Google translate circa 20 years ago, tops.
It could probably do a decent enough translation to English, if all you need is to get the gist of text. But for smaller European language outputs, nothing comes close to Gemini.
Re:Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
by dotancohen on Thursday June 04, 2026 @04:24AM
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While Gemini 4 seems fine, Gemma 4 does not do Hebrew well. I've replaced it with Aya Expanse and am getting much better results, but there is still much improvement to be had.
I'm not doing translations, rather querying Hebrew text with a Hebrew prompt.