gemma 3

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A laptop screen showing a local AI language model running in a terminal window

three free AI models all claim a 128K memory — only one actually holds onto it

Phi-4 Mini, Gemma 3, and Llama 3.2 all advertise roughly the same 128K context window. Benchmark data says that number means something very different for each one.

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 7 min

A desktop PC with a mid-range graphics card installed, the kind of 8GB hardware this guide is written for

your 8GB graphics card can run real local AI — you're probably picking the wrong model

Phi-4 Mini, Gemma 3, and Llama 3.2 all claim to fit — I checked which one actually leaves room to breathe.

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 6 min

An abstract blue visualization of a neural network

how to run Gemma 3 locally — Google's open model that also sees images, on your own PC

Gemma 3 is one of the best open models you can run at home, and it's multimodal — it reads images too. Here's how to run it in one command, and which size fits your GPU.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 10 min

the best free AI models you can run at home in 2026, ranked by what your hardware can handle

Open, free AI models have gotten shockingly good. Here are the best ones to run locally — for every size of computer, from a laptop to a 24GB graphics card.

Lena Fischer · Jul 30 · 9 min

what hardware runs Google's Gemma 3? the VRAM math for every size, from a laptop to a 24GB card

Gemma 3 comes in sizes from tiny to 27B, and each has a very different hardware requirement. Here's exactly what you need to run each one — and which fits the card you already have.

Lena Fischer · Jul 30 · 9 min