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The Gemma Team Teased an August 20 Event and r/LocalLLaMA Wrote Its Own Wishlist: QAT From the Start and a Fix for the Chat Template Bugs
A tweet from u/hackerllama announcing a special Gemma team event on 2026-08-20 drew 448 upvotes and 82 comments on r/LocalLLaMA, with the poster openly labeling their own hopes "copium." The wishlist is a precise bug report disguised as speculation: unified audio input across all sizes possibly up to 120B, higher-precision QAT from the start rather than retrofitted, and fixed tool calling — the post links an open Hugging Face discussion (google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it, discussion #15) showing template bugs persist in the current release. I could not independently confirm the event through Google's developer blog or the public Gemma events calendar, so treat the date as single-sourced.
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