Is Gemma 4 (Google) Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of deepmind.google plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-04-19

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Known issues we've tracked

2026-04-18 BF16 stability refresh -- Google re-released Gemma 4 multimodal checkpoints in BF16 format focused on truthfulness, JSON / tool-call formatting, long-context extraction reliability, and loop resistance. Not a new model version; a quality refresh that fixes specific failure modes developers were hitting in production. If you pulled weights before 2026-04-18, consider re-downloading for the new checkpoints
2026-04•Google DeepMind Gemma page, Hugging Face
Gemma 4 launched April 2, 2026 with improved licensing -- earlier Gemma versions had restrictive use clauses that confused developers
2026-04•The Register, Hugging Face
Function calling support is new -- some users report inconsistent tool-use behavior compared to Llama 3 or Mistral
2026-04•Hugging Face discussions

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Gemma 4 (Google) is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

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Qwen (Alibaba)

8.8

Alibaba's open-weights + API family -- Qwen3.8-Max flagship previewed at WAIC (Jul 19 2026: 2.4T sparse-MoE multimodal, closed preview, 'second only to Fable 5'), Qwen 3.7 Max GA (SWE-Bench Pro 60.6%, Terminal-Bench 69.7%, $2.50/$7.50 per 1M), Qwen3.6-27B dense Apache 2.0 (beats the 397B MoE on coding from one consumer GPU)

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MiniMax M3

8.4

MiniMax's coding/agent flagship -- M3 (June 1 2026): 1M-token context, MSA sparse attention (>15x decoding speedup at long context), SWE-Bench Pro 59.0%, Terminal-Bench 66.0%. OPEN WEIGHTS LIVE on HuggingFace since June 12 (~428B total / ~23B active, native multimodal, minimax-community license)

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IBM Granite 4.0

8.2

IBM's enterprise-focused open-weight family -- Granite 4.0 hybrid Mamba-2 + transformer architecture (70-80% memory reduction vs pure transformer), 3B to 32B sizes, Apache 2.0. First open model family to secure ISO 42001 certification. Nano 350M runs on CPU with 8-16GB RAM. 3B Vision variant landed 2026-04-01

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Kimi K3 (Moonshot)

8.1

Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 (launched 2026-07-16/17) is the largest open-weight model ever announced -- 1M context, multimodal, $3/$15 per 1M via API, ranked best-available on Arena.AI at launch. Weights promised late July (press cites 7/27); K2.6/K2.7-Code remain the shipped-weights line

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gpt-oss (OpenAI)

8.1

OpenAI's FIRST open-weight models -- gpt-oss-120b (single 80GB GPU, near parity with o4-mini on reasoning) and gpt-oss-20b (runs on 16GB edge devices). Apache 2.0. Launched 2025-08-05. gpt-oss-safeguard ships in 2026 as the safety-tuned variant

About Gemma 4 (Google)

Tier A (8.3/10). Google DeepMind's open-weights model family -- multimodal, 256K context, runs on edge devices

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