Gemma 3 12B

About Gemma 3 12B

Gemma 3 is Google's latest open-weight model family, delivering significant improvements over Gemma 2 in capability and efficiency. The models feature enhanced reasoning, coding, and multilingual performance while maintaining practical deployment requirements. Gemma 3 excels at general language tasks and demonstrates strong performance on benchmarks for its size class. The open weights enable self-hosting, fine-tuning, and customization without API dependencies. For developers seeking capable open-source AI with Google's latest improvements, Gemma 3 offers excellent value. It's particularly popular for local deployment and applications requiring deployment flexibility.

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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Gemma 3 12B API

import google.generativeai as genai

genai.configure(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
model = genai.GenerativeModel("gemma-3-12b-it")

response = model.generate_content("Hello!")
print(response.text)

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