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… Aliteq Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor

One command: install Ollama, then ollama run gemma3. Done.

It's multimodal — Gemma 3 can analyze images, not just text (a rarity among local models).

Sizes: 4B / 12B / 27B — 4B on 8GB, 12B on 12-16GB, 27B on 24GB.

Great all-rounder — strong quality for its size; a top alternative to Qwen3.

Free, private, offline — runs entirely on your machine.

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