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Google launches local-first Mac meeting note-taker 'Google AI Edge Foresight' using on-device Gemma models
Google released a Mac app called Google AI Edge Foresight that captures meeting notes across apps and in‑person meetings and can run completely offline on Apple Silicon. The app uses an on‑device EmbeddingGemma 2 (740M parameters) for embeddings, offers a split view like Granola, lets users view transcripts and chat with a Gemma 4–powered assistant, and can ingest PDFs, Google Docs, Office files, text, Markdown and bookmarks to build a local knowledge base for real‑time Q&A.
KEY POINTS
- Google released a Mac app called Google AI Edge Foresight that captures meeting notes across apps and in‑person meetings and can run completely offline on Apple Silicon.
- The app uses an on‑device EmbeddingGemma 2 (740M parameters) for embeddings, offers a split view like Granola, lets users view transcripts and chat with a Gemma 4–powered assistant, and can ingest PDFs, Google Docs, Office files, text, Markdown and bookmarks to build a local knowledge base for real‑time Q&A.
- This showcases Google's push for powerful on‑device Gemma models and privacy‑friendly, offline AI features in a competitive meeting note‑taker market.
WHY IT MATTERS
This showcases Google's push for powerful on‑device Gemma models and privacy‑friendly, offline AI features in a competitive meeting note‑taker market.
SOURCES & TIMELINE
2Earlier in April, Google released an AI-powered dictation tool that worked with local models . Now, the same team has released a new competitor to the AI note-taker Granola and others, which it calls Google AI Edge Foresight . The Mac app can work completely offline, utilizing the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model, with 740 million parameters, to capture meeting notes across apps, including those from in-person meeti…
Google AI Edge Foresight uses an on-device model to process your audio and notes without connecting to the cloud. Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch . The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight , is free to use and runs on macOS using the company’s on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model . Similar to AI note-tak…