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Hi! Do you ever make quants of the base models? I'm interested in experimenting with them in non-chat contexts.

Yes, they are listed on huggingface. The instruction trained models have an 'it' in their name.

https://huggingface.co/collections/unsloth/gemma-4

Edit: Sorry, I'm not sure if this is a quant, but it says 'finetuned' from the Google Gemma 4 parent snapshot. It's the same size as the UD 8-bit quant though.

Only the 'it' models seem to have quants. I was really hoping to try a base model.

Basic quantization is easy if you have enough RAM (not VRAM) to load the weights.

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