Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

Re:Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB R... by sscarduzio on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @11:47AM (#49099030)

How does this compare to DwarfStar4?

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Re:Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB R... by fghorow on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @12:45PM (#49099845)

I'm curious too!

One obvious thing is that the memory requirements for this are substantially smaller than DwarfStar-- which AFAIK can only start to be used at 64GB ram and upwards. Another obvious thing is that antirez is pretty obsessed with making sure that DwarfStar passes all of DeepSeek V4 Flash's generating tests (loosely). I suspect that is also true of DwarfStar's implementation of GLM5.2, but I don't use that.

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Re:Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB R... by liuliu on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:05PM (#49100127)

DS4 is designed to do real-work. Gemma 4 is not going to cut it.

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Re:Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB R... by gitpusher42 on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:16PM (#49103807)

uh, I don't think it is possible to compare them. DwarfStar4 is for high end macs and a lot of ram. this project is more targeted to low end devices and "general use" Gemma4 model

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