Gemma 4 vs Grok Build 0.1

Google's open model family, and the one you can run on your own hardware. Gemma 4 handles text, images, and video, parses documents and handwriting, and was trained across more than 140 languages. Its image understanding is unusually detailed, covering OCR, charts, and screen layouts. Weights are open, so it can be self-hosted or run offline entirely, which no closed frontier model allows.

xAI's coding model, purpose-built for autonomous software engineering rather than chat. Grok Build 0.1 acts as an engineering agent: it reasons through a problem, writes code, runs your terminal, checks for errors, and fixes its own mistakes in a loop. It reads text and images, always reasons before answering, and natively supports Model Context Protocol. Built for long-horizon coding that runs with little supervision, at a low cost, tuned for agent loops.