Updated Gemma-4 chat template witchcraft: Gemma-4-26B-a4B shows dominance over Qwen3.6-MoE and Qwen3.5-MoE fine tunes (Instruct mode and Reasoning efficiency)

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New evaluations from the local LLM community suggest that Google’s Gemma-4-26B model is outperforming high-end Qwen models in reasoning efficiency and instruct-following. While Qwen still holds an edge in specific fine-tuned datasets like Hermes, Gemma's performance architecture is being hailed as the new 'gold standard' for sub-30B parameter models.