Google Releases Google AI Edge Foresight For Mac
Google is putting its own Gemma models into a free offline Mac app, which competes with cloud-dependent meeting assistants by keeping audio, transcripts and files on the device.
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Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, a free macOS note-taking app that records and summarizes meetings. It runs Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 and Gemma 4 models locally, so transcription, minutes and assistant answers work without a cloud connection. The app captures system audio and microphone input, supports online and in-person meetings, and folds user shorthand into detailed notes. It also imports PDFs, Google Docs, Office files, text, Markdown and web bookmarks as a searchable knowledge base.
Foresight captures audio from the Mac's system audio and microphone rather than integrating with a specific video conferencing service, so it works with online and in-person meetings. Notes written by hand during a meeting appear beside AI-organized notes on the same screen, and the app supplements shorthand with related transcript material.
A Gemma 4 assistant answers questions in natural language using the transcript and imported files. Google says the app can also detect questions asked aloud mid-meeting and surface answers during the session. An AI Edge Foresight page is live on Google for Developers.
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