We are so excited to announce the winners of the Gemma 4 Challenge!
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, a $50-a-month OCR bill replaced by a local vision pipeline, disaster scenes compressed into 200-byte emergency payloads, and a phone that notices 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…
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.
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.
Prizes
The five “Build with Gemma 4” winners will receive:
- $500 USD cash prize
- DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
The five “Write About Gemma 4” winners will receive:
- $100 USD cash prize
- DEV++ 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:
Thank you again to everyone who participated.
See you next time 💜
Top comments (49)
Congrats @jpcurada, @hassan_shah_733ea1eb37c88, @avinash_s_karanth, @asimie, and @sireesha_chavvakula_0f6ba for the Build!
Congrats @soumyadeepdey, @eteimz, @xencrafter, @samdude, and @thelonewulfwa for the writing!
Good work all of you!!!
Sad that I lost, but that's ok. :)
Losing teaches us much more than winning. I lost too, even though I used every last bit of my energy and free time for my project. Let's use this as a motivation to try again and again. 🔥
For me having the goal of writing something, anything, technical in the AI space was reward enough.
Then I looked at how much I ended up with and my jaw dropped.
Some people diminish just how much detail there is in this space. For everyone who added to the knowledge space on Gemma 4. Congratulations, You've travelled places a lot of people will never see in person!
It's okay Francis. You will get it another time, and thank you! Let's all keep pushing.
Thanks man :)
Ciao @francistrdev, don't worry the important thing is to participate. There will be other opportunities for win. (I am sad too 😁)
Do you know if there's a reason why the participation badge isn't showing up on profile?
Hey Marco! It usually takes time for the badge to popup (seems like the badge is shown in your profile!!).
Thanks again for the kind message :D
Thank you Francis 🥰
To me you are a winner, I loved your piece. It was one of the most creative entries in the entire competition.
Btw, I want to know more about the Devengers initiative 🙂
Hey Youdiowei! Thanks for the kind message and appreciate you reading my piece!
For the DEVengers, what are some things you are curious about the org? For joining, it is based on my observation on DEV and concluding from there.
Oh nice, I was curious on joining 🙂
If you have lost this, perhaps you will gain something greater.📈💗
Congrats to all the winners . incredible range of builds and writing! 🎉 @jess quick update on my end . I finally received my OpenClaw Challenge prize yesterday. Thank you for stepping in and helping push it through. Really appreciate it.
Congratulations to all the winners @jpcurada, @hassan_shah_733ea1eb37c88, @avinash_s_karanth, @asimie, and @sireesha_chavvakula_0f6ba @soumyadeepdey, @eteimz, @xencrafter, @samdude, and @thelonewulfwa
Fantastic builds and articles! I learned so much from all of you!
I'm so glad I entered this competition and even though I didn't place it was one of the most rewarding experiences!! Gemma is living up to its (her) name and opens so many doors for all of us. Let's keep building!
Congrats @jpcurada, @hassan_shah_733ea1eb37c88, @avinash_s_karanth, @asimie, @sireesha_chavvakula_0f6ba, @soumyadeepdey, @eteimz, @xencrafter, @samdude, @thelonewulfwa 🎉
Some fantastic projects and writeups here. I've already added a few to my reading list, and knowing me I'll probably end up going through all of them eventually 😄
Well deserved, and great work everyone.
Thank you😁
Thank you so much 🤗
Congrats to the building team @jpcurada, @hassan_shah_733ea1eb37c88, @avinash_s_karanth, @asimie, and @sireesha_chavvakula_0f6ba for the Build!
Congrats to the writing team @soumyadeepdey, @eteimz, @xencrafter, @samdude, and @thelonewulfwa
You all have given me reasons to push harder
Congratulations to all winners!!!
Congratulations guys @jpcurada, @hassan_shah_733ea1eb37c88, @avinash_s_karanth, @asimie, @sireesha_chavvakula_0f6ba, @soumyadeepdey, @eteimz, @xencrafter, @samdude, @thelonewulfwa 🎉🎊
I'm so honored to be one of the winners. 🏆 This was a very interesting competition because I got to share my knowledge with the community and learn from the other entries in the competition.
Congratulations to my fellow winners 🎉, and congratulations to everyone else who participated in the competition. You are all winners too. 🙌🏾✨
Congrats @jpcurada, @hassan_shah_733ea1eb37c88, @avinash_s_karanth, @asimie, @sireesha_chavvakula_0f6ba, @soumyadeepdey, @eteimz, @xencrafter, @samdude, @thelonewulfwa
Congrats guys !!!
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