Apache 2.0 is a big shift here.

Previous Gemma licenses made agent deployments (especially BYOK setups) a bit of a gray zone legally. This makes it much easier to run models like Gemma 4 as agent backends without worrying about downstream usage.

Also interesting from an agent perspective: the 26B MoE hitting #6 while activating ~4B params.

If you’re running multiple agents on a single machine, that kind of efficiency actually matters more than raw model size.