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Local AI is having a moment, and we want you to be part of it!
Running through May 24, the Gemma 4 Challenge invites you to explore open models. With the release of Gemma 4, Google's most capable open model family yet, we now have access to native multimodal capabilities, advanced reasoning, a 128K context window, and models that range from running on a Raspberry Pi, to phones, to powering large-scale deployments.
Whether you love to build or love to write, there's a prompt for you and a 3,000ドル prize pool up for grabs!
Read on to learn more.
Your mandate is to build something useful or creative with any Gemma 4 model. The scope is wide open — you can build anything from an IoT integration to a multimodal tool to a long-context reasoning app. What matters is that Gemma 4 is doing real work at the heart of your project.
The most compelling submissions will make a clear case for why you chose the model you did and what that model unlocked.
Your mandate is to publish a post about Gemma 4 that educates, inspires, or sparks curiosity. There's no single right format — what matters is that your post offers something genuine and useful to the community.
Not sure what to write about? Here are some ideas:
Need inspiration? Check out how Google's own team fine-tuned Gemma 4 with Cloud Run Jobs. That’s the kind of hands-on, shareable knowledge is exactly what we're looking for.
Note: If you are primarily showing off a project, please submit to the Build with Gemma 4 prompt instead! Each submission is only allowed to be eligible for one of the two categories.
Gemma 4 model family spans three distinct architectures tailored for specific hardware requirements:
No matter which you choose, judges will be looking for intentional model selection — show us why your model was the right tool for the job.
Five winners from the "Build with Gemma 4" prompt will receive:
Five winners from the "Write About Gemma 4" prompt will receive:
All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Build With Gemma 4 submissions will be evaluated for:
Write About Gemma 4 submissions will be evaluated for:
Gemma 4 is open — you have several ways to get started, including completely free options:
We can't wait to see what you build and write! Questions about the challenge? Drop them in the comments below.
Good luck and happy coding!
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Top comments (104)
This challenge is either a make or break for me! Will probably do both, but we will see.
@jess If you are doing both prompts, would it be appropriate to do in one post or do you prefer to be separate post. I say this because I was thinking about writing about Gemma 4, but also showcase what I built (not going to spoil it yet).
Regardless, hope to see what the community builts/writes :D
Hey @francistrdev! I would keep those as two separate submissions. The content should be different though, please don't just duplicate two posts.
Sounds good! Thanks! I also sent you an email on other stuff! Noticed you might be busy lol. lmk!
Interesting perspective. Curious how others are handling this."
This one is going to be great. I’m most excited about the IOT related use cases, but it all seems cool.
I explored Gemma 4 through the lens of local AI ownership— how moving from cloud-only APIs to capable local models changes the experience for users. One of the most interesting parts for me was intentionally choosing the E4B model instead of defaulting to the largest variant, because accessibility matters just as much as raw capability. Feel free to check out my submission 😇
Excited to read what everyone else is building and writing!
love this, definitely joining in 😄
This is a yummy challenge!
Hope to see a lot of really useful projects, and at the same time some useless but still cool projects!
Love it 😍
Thanks to Google and the Dev team!
Rock & roll
This is a cool challenge. Gemma 4 should lead to some really interesting projects.
I want to.. I need to find something I could do with my potato laptop. it's hot even to compile cpp with 20 lines still waiting for +5 mins.
ahh, theres solution <3 thank you google & ollama for the cloud <3 amazing!
Nice! I've already got some good testing with it in my agents memory.
This is exciting. definitely joining this challenge. 🤙
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