Updated Gemma-4 chat template witchcraft: Gemma-4-26B-a4B shows dominance over Qwen3.6-MoE

Key takeaways

Kind of unexpected. Happy for Gemma-4/Google, big win for us, LocalLLMers. Yet Qwen3.6 still does better in Hermes than Gemma-4 somehow. We need Gemma-4.1 fine-tuned on Agentic-tasks. That would be killer. /u/JLeonsarmiento

Why open it

This community highlights that Gemma-4-26B-a4B outperforms Qwen3.6-MoE in reasoning efficiency, signaling a potential shift in open-source model leadership for local LLM deployment.

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What changed

Kind of unexpected.

Who should care

Developers and engineering leaders watching AI coding workflows.

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