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Is there any reason for a lack of love for Gemma 4 26b?

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The answer to most questions on here is Qwen3.6 27b or 35b and then Gemma4 31b (but lesser so as it doesn’t fit well on a solo 3090).

Is there any reason why Gemma 4 26b moe isn’t mentioned more?

I plan on using Qwen for my coding agents. But I’ve been building a Jarvis for myself that’s a big all in one rag, personal assistant, etc on my solo 3090 build (with a few side GPUs to help with supporting smaller models).

I had qwen3.6 35b as my primary driver behind this. But the more testing I’ve been doing, I think Gemma may possibly be better for this type of test. My only red flag is that I don’t see a ton of people talking about it anymore on here.

Why is there a lack of attention around Gemma 4 26b? What skeletons does it have in its closet?

Note: I'm not talking about for coding. I'm talking about for things like RAG, personal assistant, knowledge base queries, etc. I'll stick to Qwen3.6 for coding.

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