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Codex versus Claude Code for porting Gemma 4 JAX to PyTorch

April 4, 2026Ross Wightman

Ross Wightman reports both Codex and Claude Code could implement Gemma 4 from an unmerged JAX reference into clean PyTorch within hours, but later notes Codex still got some vision and token semantics wrong.

After Gemma4 release, I asked both Codex and Claude Code to implement the model (from the as yet unmerged JAX impl) in clean, canonical PyTorch.
They both dutifully reproduced working text decoders within a few hours
image injection / expanded token semantics: not right enough yet
Ross Wightman
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