How to Run Google's Gemma 4 Locally with Ollama —...

Google dropped Gemma 4 two days ago and it's already everywhere — 1,700+ points on Hacker News, 80K+ downloads on HuggingFace. The benchmarks are genuinely insane: the E4B model (4.5B active parameters) beats Gemma 3 27B across the board. Math scores jumped from 20% to 89%. Agentic tasks from 6% to 86%. I've been building a local AI desktop app (Locally Uncensored) and added Gemma 4 support on day one. Here's a quick guide to running it locally with Ollama, plus what I've learned about the diffe