Interesting; they may have fluffed up somewhere then.

(Though perhaps it'll squeeze in with a small context window? Not sure I understand that aspect yet)

It does seem to use MTP, yes, and it is quite quick — seemingly the underlying LiteRT stuff can do MTP with Gemma 4 and presumably MTP is a big part of the practicality picture here.

The system prompt thing was a surprise when I poked around.