Karlheinz Agsteiner<p>Not sure if you have noticed it: Google has released Gemma 3, a powerful model that is small enough to run on normal computers.</p><p><a href="https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.google/technology/develop</span><span class="invisible">ers/gemma-3/</span></a></p><p>I've done some experiments on my Laptop (with a Geforce 3080ti), and am very impressed. I tried to be happy with Llama3, with the Deepseek R1 distills on Llama, with Mistral, but the models that would run on my computer were not in the same league as what you get from ChatGPT or Claude or Deepseek remotely.</p><p>Gemma changes this for me. So far I let it write 3 smaller pieces of Javascript, analyze a few texts, and it performed slow, but flawlessly. So finally I can move to a "use the local LLM for the 90% default case, and go for the big ones only if the local LLM fails".</p><p>This way<br>- I use far less CO2 for my LLM tasks<br>- I am in control of my data, nobody can collect my prompts and later sell my profile to ad customers<br>- I am sure the IP of my prompts stay with me<br>- I have the privacy to ask it whatever I want and no server in the US or CN has those data.</p><p>Interested? If you have a powerful graphiccs card in your PC, it is totally simple:</p><p>1. install LMStudio from LMStudio.ai<br>2. in LMStudio, click Discover, and download the Gema3 27b Q4 model<br>3. Chat</p><p>If your graphics card is too small, you might head for the smaller 12b model, but I can't tell you how well it performs.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LMStudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LMStudio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gemma3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gemma3</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gemma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gemma</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a></p>