Open MLX contest lifts Gemma 4 26B A4B Mac speed 130% above launch

Google's Gemma team said Gemma 4 26B A4B now runs about twice as fast on a Mac, after developers spent days grinding an open Apple Silicon inference contest. The live board is more precise: Gemma 4 26B A4B now runs 130.3% faster than the launch baseline, or about 2.3 times the starting engine, after 91 promoted submissions from 32 solvers.