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Antigravity × Gemma 4: Building Production AI Agents with Local LLMs

A complete guide to running Gemma 4 in Antigravity and building production-grade AI agents. Covers model selection, Ollama setup, AgentKit 2.0 integration, and multi-agent scaling.

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Google's Gemma 4, released in late 2025, has become the new standard for open-source LLMs. Compared to Llama 2 or Mistral, it offers significant improvements in inference speed and knowledge breadth — especially in coding and logical reasoning. And Antigravity is your ideal platform for running Gemma 4 locally and building enterprise-grade AI agents.

This guide walks you from Gemma 4 fundamentals through production-ready agent implementation, all the way to multi-agent scaling strategies. By the end, you'll have a fully autonomous AI system powered by Gemma 4 running on your machine.

The Gemma 4 Landscape: Variants and Antigravity Compatibility

Gemma 4, from Google DeepMind, distinguishes itself through a strategic variant approach. There are three main flavors:

Gemma 4 2B

  • Parameters: 2 billion
  • Memory: 4GB (quantized) to 6GB (full precision)
  • Speed: Extremely fast per token
  • Best for: Lightweight edge devices, real-time responses, prototyping

Gemma 4 9B

  • Parameters: 9 billion
  • Memory: 8GB (quantized) to 18GB (full precision)
  • Speed: Fast and balanced
  • Best for: General-purpose agents, most production environments

Gemma 4 27B

  • Parameters: 27 billion
  • Memory: 16GB (quantized) to 54GB (full precision)
  • Speed: Slower, but highest accuracy
  • Best for: Complex reasoning tasks, specialized domain agents

Antigravity Synergy

Antigravity was built with local LLMs in mind:

  • Zero API costs: No cloud dependency, no per-token billing
  • Fine-grained inference control: Adjust temperature, context length, beam search parameters directly
  • Integrated agent framework: AgentKit 2.0 bakes in Tool Use and Memory management
  • Multi-model management: Run multiple Gemma 4 variants simultaneously through Ollama

Antigravity's orchestration layer makes switching between models, scaling agents, and managing state trivial.

Setting Up Gemma 4 with Ollama

Before we code, let's get Gemma 4 installed locally.

Verify Ollama Installation

ollama --version

If not installed, grab it from ollama.com.

Pull Gemma 4 Models

# Gemma 4 9B (recommended: good balance)
ollama pull gemma4:9b
 
# Or the lightweight 2B
ollama pull gemma4:2b
 
# Or the powerful 27B
ollama pull gemma4:27b

First pull takes a few minutes to hours depending on model size and internet speed. Gemma 4 9B is about 9GB.

Quantization Variants

By default, you get a quantized version (typically q4_0 or q5_K_M). If you have spare RAM, request higher precision:

# Finer quantization (≈18GB, 8GB RAM recommended)
ollama pull gemma4:9b-q5_K_M
 
# Full precision (≈34GB, 24GB RAM required — not recommended)
ollama pull gemma4:9b-fp16

Trade-off table:

QuantizationFile SizeRAMAccuracyUse Case
q2_K~5GB6GBLowUltra-light edge
q3_K~6GB8GBLow–MedEdge AI
q4_0~9GB12GBMediumStandard prod
q5_K_M~11GB14GBMed–HighHigh-accuracy
fp16~18GB28GBHighestResearch

Start the Ollama Server

ollama serve

In another terminal:

ollama list

Expected output:

NAME              ID              SIZE      MODIFIED
gemma4:9b         a1b2c3d4e5f6    9.5 GB    2 minutes ago

Verify the API

curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/api/generate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gemma4:9b",
    "prompt": "What is AI?",
    "stream": false
  }'

You'll get back a JSON response with the generated text. Good — you're ready for Antigravity.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Choose the right Gemma 4 variant (2B/9B/27B) and configure it optimally in Antigravity
Build a production agent using Ollama + Antigravity + AgentKit 2.0 integration
Scale with multi-agent parallelism and cost optimization strategies for Gemma 4
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