Congrats to the Gemma 4 Challenge Winners!

We are so excited to announce the winners of the [Gemma 4 Challenge](https://dev.to/devteam/join-the-gemma-4-challenge-3000-prize-pool-for-ten-winners-23in)! This is officially our most participated-in challenge to date, and the range of submissions made that obvious from the start. We saw a ten-year-old GPU-less laptop [pushed to its limits](https://dev.to/tech_girlll/i-ran-googles-gemma-4-on-a-10-year-old-laptop-with-no-gpu-here-is-what-i-found-56b2), a [$50-a-month OCR bill](https://dev.to/stephen_sebastian_c85ea2b/i-replaced-a-50month-ocr-api-with-gemma-4s-native-vision-and-you-can-too-4jnd) replaced by a local vision pipeline, disaster scenes [compressed into 200-byte emergency payloads](https://dev.to/msteja/crisislens-compressing-disaster-scenes-into-200-byte-emergency-payloads-with-gemma-4-130d), and a [phone that notices](https://dev.to/navn45/aasa-the-phone-that-finally-notices-304o) when an elder living alone needs help. The sheer array of topics and builds made these a joy to read through. Now, let's cut to the chase and celebrate our winners! ## 🎉 Congratulations To… {% card %} ### Build With Gemma 4 Winners This prompt asked builders to put Gemma 4 to work, and the range of what came back was the whole story. We saw the model packed onto a disaster-relief app for the Philippines that keeps functioning when the cell towers go down, turned into a lanyard-worn pair of eyes for blind and low-vision users, and routed through a strict tool-dispatcher so a 2B model could safely tap and type on someone's behalf. One submission ran entirely peer-to-peer so no prompt ever touched a server, and another distilled a HIPAA-bound DBA's 3 AM database panic into a six-section runbook that never left their laptop. Across all of it, these projects show Gemma 4 expanding the map what can be built and who gets to use it. --- {% embed https://dev.to/jpcurada/likas-an-offline-disaster-companion-for-the-philippines-powered-by-on-device-gemma-4-e2b-ao1 %} --- {% embed https://dev.to/hassan_shah_733ea1eb37c88/accesslens-a-persistent-on-device-visual-interpreter-for-the-blind-8h6 %} --- {% embed https://dev.to/avinash_s_karanth/p2p-ai-distributed-peer-to-peer-ai-inference-network-f38 %} --- {% embed https://dev.to/asimie/genie-building-a-privacy-first-autonomous-agent-that-controls-your-phone-entirely-offline-4da2 %} --- {% embed https://dev.to/sireesha_chavvakula_0f6ba/i-built-a-local-postgres-triage-co-pilot-because-hipaa-says-i-cant-paste-plans-into-chatgpt-or-4pdl %} {% endcard %} {% card %} ### Write About Gemma 4 Winners The writing prompt covered just as much ground, from practical decision-making to deep architectural breakdowns to honest on-the-ground reporting. One winner laid out exactly how to pick between Gemma 4's four variants before writing a single line of code, while another went under the hood of the model's vision system to explain how it compresses image patches into soft tokens. A third explored what an agentic Gemma 4 misinformation moderator for the Fediverse would actually have to contend with, a fourth shared the hard-won configuration tricks for getting real speed out of Gemma 4 E2B on Android, and the last took the open-model "catch-up" story to Freetown and tested it against the phones people actually carry. Taken together, these posts are some of the most useful reference material the community has produced on Gemma 4 yet. --- {% embed https://dev.to/soumyadeepdey/gemma-4-has-four-variants-heres-how-to-pick-the-right-one-before-you-write-a-single-line-of-code-4f9d %} --- {% embed https://dev.to/eteimz/gemma-4-soft-tokens-the-rise-and-fall-of-16x16-words-5a7c %} --- {% embed https://dev.to/xencrafter/anatomy-of-the-slopster-3n3m %} --- {% embed https://dev.to/samdude/gemma-4-on-android-tricks-for-faster-on-device-inference-3kj5 %} --- {% embed https://dev.to/thelonewulfwa/open-models-and-the-sub-saharan-region-29nh %} {% endcard %} ## Prizes The five “Build with Gemma 4” winners will receive: - **$500 USD** cash prize - [DEV++](https://dev.to/++) Membership - Exclusive DEV Badge The five “Write About Gemma 4” winners will receive: - **$100 USD** cash prize - [DEV++](https://dev.to/++) Membership - Exclusive DEV Badge All participants with a valid submission will receive a **completion badge** on their DEV profile. ## What's Next? Check out the June Solstice Game Jam happening now: {% embed https://dev.to/devteam/join-the-june-solstice-game-jam-1000-in-prizes-3jla %} --- Thank you again to everyone who participated. See you next time 💜