Meta shipped Llama 4 Scout and Maverick and Google shipped four Gemma 4 variants under Apache 2.0 — all within a few weeks of each other. This is a practical walkthrough of what each model is, what hardware you actually need, how to deploy them with Ollama, vLLM, and llama.cpp, and which one to pick for which job.
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Llama 4 and Gemma 4: The 2026 Self-Hosted Model Landscape -
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