Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google launches multi-token prediction writers for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference— Google launched its Gemma 4 open models this spring, promising a new level of power and performance for local AI.
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