POCKET now speaks Gemma 4 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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% — lossless • POCKET-26B Q2_K (11 GB): 67.2% — near-lossless, at 11 GB
Live, on a CPU-only box (our demo Space — POCKET-26B vs Bonsai-27B, same machine, same stock llama.cpp): POCKET-26B ≈ 19 tok/s vs Bonsai ≈ 6 tok/s → about 3× 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) — bigger, top-tier, needs a recent llama.cpp. • POCKET-26B (Gemma 4) — 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 ≤8 GB phone, the 5 GB POCKET-KR (Qwen) is still the pick.
We are announcing 3 more models in our BananaMind 2 Family of models! BananaMind 2 Nano, a small 10M parameter model, fits on your Pentium 4 BananaMind 2 Medium, our medium model, 50M parameters BananaMind 2 MoE, 25M parameters, 2M active per tokens as fast as a 2M.
Because of this our release dates have changed a bit our currently estimates are: BananaMind 2 MoE July 16-18 BananaMind 2 Nano July 18-20 BananaMind 2 Medium July 24-28 BananaMind 2 Pro August 10-16 Keep in mind these dates are estimates and we don't have a speed number currently, we will post for details going forward!