Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs

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Am I missing something?

These have been out for a while; if you follow the HF link you can see, for example, the 27b quant has been downloaded from HF 64,000 times over the last 10 days.

Is there something more to this, or is just a follow up blog post?

(is it just that ollama finally has partial (no images right?) support? Or something else?)

QAT “quantization aware training” means they had it quantized to 4 bits during training rather than after training in full or half precision. It’s supposedly a higher quality, but unfortunately they don’t show any comparisons between QAT and post-training quantization.

I understand that, but the qat models (1) are not new uploads.

How is this more significant now than when they were uploaded 2 weeks ago?

Are we expecting new models? I don’t understand the timing. This post feels like it’s two weeks late.

[1] - https://huggingface.co/collections/google/gemma-3-qat-67ee61...