Gemma 3N 3B – How to Use and Download for Free

Abdullah Siddique | Jul 3, 2025 min read

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🌟 Gemma 3B 3N

Google Gemma 3B 3N for free?
Check out what the 3N variant is, how to use it in Colab, Python, or Inference Server with Unsloth.


🤔 What is Gemma 3N?

Gemma 3N is our quantized 3-bit version of Google’s Gemma 3B model.

  • It is designed to be 3x smaller in memory while still maintaining strong accuracy.
  • It can run on RTX 3060, Colab T4, and even Apple M1 / M2!
  • You can also fine-tune Gemma 3N for even better results.

We call it 3N (3-bit Normal) because it’s a 3-bit quantization of the normal float16 model.


❓ Is there an official 3N from Google?

No.

  • Google only released Gemma 2B, Gemma 7B, and Gemma 1.1 9B (for float16/bfloat16 and int8).
  • There is no 3-bit official release from Google.

Our 3N variant is an Unsloth quantization for ultra-low-memory use cases.


📦 Where to get Gemma 3N

You can download our Unsloth Gemma 3N weights from Hugging Face:

It’s open and freely available.


💻 How to use Gemma 3N in Colab

Run the following code in Google Colab:

!pip install unsloth
from unsloth import FastLanguageModel
model, tokenizer = FastLanguageModel.from_pretrained(
    "unsloth/gemma-3b-3n",
    load_in_4bit = False,
)
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