Google AI Releases Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) Drafters for Gemma 4: Delivering Up to 3x Faster Inference Without Quality Loss

MarkTechPost / 5/6/2026

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Key Points

  • Google has released Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) Drafters for the Gemma 4 model family, leveraging speculative decoding to speed up generation.
  • The approach reportedly delivers up to 3x faster inference while maintaining output quality, i.e., without quality loss.
  • MTP Drafters are positioned as an efficiency improvement for deploying Gemma 4, targeting faster response times in AI applications.
  • The release indicates continued optimization of Google’s LLM serving stack, focusing on inference-time performance rather than only training improvements.

Google Introduces MTP Drafters for Gemma 4 Family Using Speculative Decoding to Achieve Up to 3x Speedup

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