Ahmad recommends Gemma 4 26B A4B for running locally on unified memory machines like Mac Studio, while OpenRouter and Bindu Reddy emphasize Gemma 4 speed, context, and agent workflow fit as reasons to choose it.
Which model to use locally with Hermes agent?
on Unified Memory Hardware*
> Gemma 4 26B-A4B
Gemma 4 from @GoogleDeepMind has hit 2.5B tokens so far:
256K context • native function calling • multimodal • configurable thinking • 140+ languages
Gemma 4 is a very good small model that punches above it's weight class
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