There is a trade-off, but on Gemma we reduced thinking tokens by 39% on average for just a 0.15 percentage-point drop in average accuracy across 12 benchmarks. We'd encourage you to give this release a try.

Our ThinkingCap weights are publicly available on Hugging Face: BF16 and GGUF. Free to download and run locally. https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-gemma-4-26B-A... https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-gemma-4-26B-A...