Latent Space Good Friday: Gemma 4 Ecosystem Day-0, DeepSeek Core Departures, Agent Memory Wars

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Latent Space's April 4 roundup covers Gemma 4's immediate ecosystem integration with benchmark numbers (162 tok/s on 4090, 34 tok/s Mac mini M4), reports that multiple DeepSeek core team members have departed though V4 remains anticipated for April, and highlights a paradigm shift in agentic AI discourse from model capability to 'harness + learning loop' quality — with specific praise for Hermes Agent's pluggable memory system supporting Honcho, mem0, and RetainDB backends. Also notable: the cognitive bottleneck thesis that orchestrating four parallel agents creates mental exhaustion for senior engineers.