POCKET now speaks Gemma 4 ā a 26B model that loads in every app, and runs on your PC with no GPU
We're adding a Gemma-4 sibling to POCKET: POCKET-26B, built from Google's Gemma-4-26B-A4B (Apache-2.0). Our flagship POCKET-35B is a Qwen-family MoE and needs a recent llama.cpp; POCKET-26B trades a little size for the thing people kept asking for ā it just loads, everywhere, today: Ollama, LM Studio, PocketPal, MLX, any stock llama.cpp. No fork, no bleeding-edge runtime, no CUDA, no cloud.
It's a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (25.2B total, ~4B active per token), so the work per token stays small ā a real 26B that generates on a CPU with no graphics card.
Two things make it stand out:
1) Universal compatibility. Gemma 4 is a standard, widely-supported architecture, so POCKET-26B runs on the tools you already have ā no waiting for your app to add a new model type.
2) Quality that survives compression. Measured GPQA-Diamond (198 q, greedy): ⢠Full base: 67.7% ⢠POCKET-26B Q4_K_M (17 GB): 67.7% ā lossless ⢠POCKET-26B Q2_K (11 GB): 67.2% ā near-lossless, at 11 GB
Live, on a CPU-only box (our demo Space ā POCKET-26B vs Bonsai-27B, same machine, same stock llama.cpp): POCKET-26B ā 19 tok/s vs Bonsai ā 6 tok/s ā about 3Ć faster generation, no GPU. (Honest notes: shared CPU box, sequential race; a dedicated machine is faster.)
Where it fits in the family: ⢠POCKET-35B (Qwen MoE) ā bigger, top-tier, needs a recent llama.cpp. ⢠POCKET-26B (Gemma 4) ā loads in any app, quality-robust when compressed. The demo runs the Q4_K_M build; Q2_K (11 GB) is the smallest footprint. For a true ā¤8 GB phone, the 5 GB POCKET-KR (Qwen) is still the pick.