Running Gemma4 for Free on HuggingFace

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 For many developers from less privileged backgrounds, something as cost efficient as an $8 monthly plan to run your own state-of-the-art LLM can be out of reach. As such, we are very grateful for the existence of perpetual free-tier services such as GitHub, HuggingFace Spaces, MongoDB, Cloudflare R2, and many more. Having utilized free-tier HuggingFace spaces, when Gemma4 launched, I found myself wondering if it would be possibl