How to Run Gemma 4 12B Locally - The Best AI For Consumer Laptops (opens in new tab)

👉 In this video, I will show you how to run Gemma 4 12B locally on your laptop using LM Studio, a straightforward tool that makes setting up local AI models way less complicated than Ollama or vLLM\. This model sits in a sweet spot with benchmark performance close to the 26B version but at roughly half the memory cost, and it runs on just 12–16 GB of video memory\. You can use it for chatting, document retrieval, tool calling, agentic coding tasks, and even audio and image understanding via O...