Models2026-05-11 · source-backed
Gemma 4 26B one-shots Three.js demos with only 4B active parameters.
Story
A developer built a Python app cycling through prompts to generate Three.js scenes using Google's sparse MoE variant. At 4B active params, this is frontier-adjacent coding at dramatically lower compute cost. The local model story gets more compelling every week.
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