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Google Updates Gemma 4 and Adds Flash Attention 4 Support

·2026.07.16 04:26

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Google has updated Gemma 4's chat template to improve tool calling performance and now supports Flash Attention 4.

Google has announced major updates aimed at improving the performance and usability of the Gemma 4 model.

The key updates are as follows:

Chat template update: Fixed bugs related to Tool Calling and mitigated the 'Laziness' phenomenon where the model skips answers.
Inference optimization: Added support for Flash Attention 4 on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, improving inference efficiency.
Enhanced Vision capabilities: Provides an interactive guide for leveraging and improving the model's visual understanding capabilities.

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