Congrats to the Gemma 4 Challenge Winners!

We are so excited to announce the winners of the Gemma 4 Challenge ! This is officially our most participated-in challenge to date, and the range of submissions made that obvious from the start. We saw a ten-year-old GPU-less laptop pushed to its limits , a $50-a-month OCR bill replaced by a local vision pipeline, disaster scenes compressed into 200-byte emergency payloads , and a phone that notices when an elder living alone needs help. The sheer array of topics and builds made these a joy to read through. Now, let's cut to the chase and celebrate our winners! 🎉 Congratulations To… Build With Gemma 4 Winners This prompt asked builders to put Gemma 4 to work, and the range of what came back was the whole story. We saw the model packed onto a disaster-relief app for the Philippines that keeps functioning when the cell towers go down, turned into a lanyard-worn pair of eyes for blind and low-vision users, and routed through a strict tool-dispatcher so a 2B model could safely tap and type on someone's behalf. One submission ran entirely peer-to-peer so no prompt ever touched a server, and another distilled a HIPAA-bound DBA's 3 AM database panic into a six-section runbook that never left their laptop. Across all of it, these projects show Gemma 4 expanding the map what can be built and who gets to use it. LIKAS: An offline disaster companion for the Philippines, powered by on-device Gemma 4 E2B Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission John Paul Curada John Paul Curada John Paul Curada Follow May 24 LIKAS: An offline disaster companion for the Philippines, powered by on-device Gemma 4 E2B # devchallenge # gemmachallenge # gemma # ai 8 reactions Add Comment 5 min read AccessLens — A persistent on-device visual interpreter for the blind Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission Hassan Shah Hassan Shah Hassan Shah Follow May 24 AccessLens — A persistent on-device visual interpreter for the blind # devchallenge # gemmachallenge # gemma 6 reactions Add Comment 4 min read p2p-ai — Distributed Peer-to-Peer AI Inference Network Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission AVINASH S KARANTH AVINASH S KARANTH AVINASH S KARANTH Follow May 22 p2p-ai — Distributed Peer-to-Peer AI Inference Network # devchallenge # gemmachallenge # gemma 5 reactions Add Comment 4 min read Genie: Building a Privacy-First Autonomous Agent That Controls Your Phone, Entirely Offline Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission Adebisi Mosimiloluwa Adebisi Mosimiloluwa Adebisi Mosimiloluwa Follow May 19 Genie: Building a Privacy-First Autonomous Agent That Controls Your Phone, Entirely Offline # devchallenge # gemmachallenge # gemma 9 reactions Add Comment 10 min read I built a local Postgres triage co-pilot because HIPAA says I can't paste plans into ChatGPT or Claude Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission Sireesha Chavvakula Sireesha Chavvakula Sireesha Chavvakula Follow May 25 I built a local Postgres triage co-pilot because HIPAA says I can't paste plans into ChatGPT or Claude # devchallenge # gemmachallenge # postgres # ai 6 reactions 2 comments 6 min read Write About Gemma 4 Winners The writing prompt covered just as much ground, from practical decision-making to deep architectural breakdowns to honest on-the-ground reporting. One winner laid out exactly how to pick between Gemma 4's four variants before writing a single line of code, while another went under the hood of the model's vision system to explain how it compresses image patches into soft tokens. A third explored what an agentic Gemma 4 misinformation moderator for the Fediverse would actually have to contend with, a fourth shared the hard-won configuration tricks for getting real speed out of Gemma 4 E2B on Android, and the last took the open-model "catch-up" story to Freetown and tested it against the phones people actually carry. Taken together, these posts are some of the most useful reference material the community has produced on Gemma 4 yet. Gemma 4 Has Four Variants. Here's How to Pick the Right One Before You Write a Single Line of Code. Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission Soumyadeep Dey Soumyadeep Dey Soumyadeep Dey Follow May 23 Gemma 4 Has Four Variants. Here's How to Pick the Right One Before You Write a Single Line of Code. # devchallenge # gemmachallenge # gemma 8 reactions 1 comment 8 min read Gemma 4 Soft Tokens: The Rise and Fall of 16x16 Words ⚡👀 Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission Youdiowei Eteimorde Youdiowei Eteimorde Youdiowei Eteimorde Follow May 24 Gemma 4 Soft Tokens: The Rise and Fall of 16x16 Words ⚡👀 # devchallenge # gemmachallenge # gemma 7 reactions 2 comments 20 min read Anatomy of the Slopster Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission Connor Green Connor Green Connor Green Follow May 24 Anatomy of the Slopster # devchallenge # gemmachallenge # gemma # java 8 reactions Add Comment 18 min read Gemma 4 on Android: Tricks for Faster On-Device Inference Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about G