Gemma 3 12B's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Gemma 3 12B's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 96000 tokens, understands over 140 languages, and offers improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities, including structured outputs and function calling. Gemma 3 12B is the second largest in the family after Gemma 3 27B.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"google/gemma-3-12b-it" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
55 outputs from Gemma 3 12B
Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 96000 tokens, understands over 140 languages, and offers improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities, including structured outputs and function calling. Gemma 3 12B is the second largest in the family after Gemma 3 27B.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"google/gemma-3-12b-it" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
55 outputs from Gemma 3 12B