Google Releases Offline AI Meeting Note-Taker Powered by Gemma 4

Google has released AI Edge Foresight, a Mac app that records meetings, generates notes, and lets users question meeting content with a Gemma 4-powered assistant. The app is designed to work entirely offline and is optimized for Apple Silicon.

Foresight can capture meetings across different apps as well as in-person conversations. Its interface combines user-written shorthand with AI-generated notes, allowing people to keep taking their own notes while the app transcribes the discussion.

Users can review the full transcript, read the generated summary, or work from their own notes. They can also ask the built-in assistant questions about what was discussed rather than searching through the transcript manually.

The app is not limited to meeting content. Users can add PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office files, plain text, Markdown files, and web bookmarks to create a broader knowledge base.

Foresight can then use that material alongside meeting notes when answering questions. If a topic discussed during a meeting relates to information in the uploaded collection, the app can surface relevant answers in real time.

Google is using two Gemma models for the experience. EmbeddingGemma 2, an on-device model with 740 million parameters, handles embeddings locally, while Gemma 4 powers the conversational assistant.

The offline design is a central part of the product. According to Google’s FAQ, Foresight can continue working without an internet connection, including when users are traveling or working somewhere with limited connectivity.

The app also puts Google into direct competition with AI meeting tools such as Granola, which uses a similar layout that combines manual notes with AI-generated meeting records.

Google’s release follows an earlier local AI dictation app from the same team. That tool was experimental, while Foresight is focused specifically on meeting capture, note review, and question answering.

The launch comes as more software companies add their own meeting assistants. Wispr and Calendly have introduced note-taking products, while Superhuman acquired Fathom, another AI meeting note-taking company.

With Foresight, Google is showing how its Gemma models can support a meeting assistant that runs locally rather than relying entirely on cloud processing, while still combining transcripts, personal notes, documents, and conversational search in one app.

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