AI BriefingGemma 4 MTP Drafter Released
·2026.05.07 07:20
Key point
Google released an MTP drafter for Gemma 4, claiming up to 3x faster inference.
Details
One month after releasing Gemma 4, Google has released a Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafter.
It's a speculative decoding structure where a lightweight drafter predicts multiple future tokens in parallel, and the main model only handles final verification. Google explains that this approach reduces the inference bottleneck while maintaining quality and reasoning accuracy.
- Targets up to 3x speedup on Gemma 4 26B MoE and 31B Dense.
- Better suited for real-time chat, voice interfaces, and agent workflows.
- Aims for more efficient execution on local PCs, consumer GPUs, and E2B/E4B edge environments as well.
- Released under the Apache 2.0 license.
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