Meet Gemma 3n: Google’s lightweight AI model that works offline with just 2GB RAM

Google has officially rolled out Gemma 3n, its latest on-device AI model first teased back in May 2025. What makes this launch exciting is that Gemma 3n brings full-scale multimodal processing think audio, video, image, and text straight to smartphones and edge devices, all without needing constant internet or heavy cloud support. It’s a big step forward for developers looking to bring powerful AI features to low-power devices running on limited memory.

At the core of Gemma 3n is a new architecture called MatFormer short for Matryoshka Transformer….