{"slug": "google-ai-edge-foresight-for-mac-turns-scribbles-into-full-notes-using-offline", "title": "Google AI Edge Foresight for Mac turns scribbles into full notes using offline recordings", "summary": "Google announced EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740 million parameter multimodal embedding model built on the Gemma 4 architecture and released under an Apache 2.0 license, alongside a new Mac notetaking app called Google AI Edge Foresight. Google said the model runs locally within tight resource constraints, requiring as little as ~191MB active RAM for text-only weights and ~567MB for the full multimodal model on a Google Pixel 11 Pro with quantization. Google AI Edge Foresight processes meeting transcripts and audio entirely on-device, turning shorthand bullets into polished notes and supporting local files and Google Drive for conversational retrieval.", "body_md": "Google today [announced](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-embeddinggemma/) its new EmbeddingGemma 2 model that can be used to “organize, search, and connect information directly on consumer hardware.” To show off its potential, Google created an AI Edge Foresight Mac app for “intelligent notetaking.”\n\nEmbeddingGemma 2 “can help find a specific video clip from a voice memo, or search through hours of audio recordings based on a text query, all processed by a single, natively multimodal model.”\n\nThe 740 million parameter model is built on the Gemma 4 architecture and available with an Apache 2.0 license. This is meant to run locally “within tight resource constraints”:\n\nWith quantization, on a Google Pixel 11 Pro, EmbeddingGemma 2 requires as little as ~191MB active RAM for text-only weights and ~567MB for the full multimodal model.\n\nTo showcase, there are demos in Google AI Edge Gallery on Android and iOS. The bigger showcase is a new Mac app called Google AI Edge Foresight.\n\nDuring video or in-person meetings, this notetaking app listens in the background so that you can just “scribble shorthand bullets for things you want to remember.”\n\nThe app, leveraging EmbeddingGemma 2, “enriches [that shorthand] into polished notes using the meeting transcript instantly.” The transcript and audio are processed entirely on your device rather than the cloud.\n\nAnother capability lets you “point Google AI Edge Foresight to your project folders, reference materials, diagrams, and calendar.” Supporting local files and Google Drive, this in turn lets you ask the app questions and quickly get back information.\n\nIt automatically understands your work without needing to manually organize your files, to ensure critical information is ready whenever you need it.\n\nThe chat feature offers “conversational retrieval and summary with your personal knowledge.” There’s also a Live Assistance capability that will “listen and automatically answer questions.”\n\nYou can download [Google AI Edge Foresight here](https://developers.google.com/edge/foresight). This joins Google’s two other Mac apps in the family: [AI Edge Gallery](https://developers.google.com/edge/gallery) and [AI Edge Eloquent](https://developers.google.com/edge/eloquent) (offline transcription).\n\n*FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.* [More.](https://9to5mac.com/about/#affiliate)\n\n[our homepage](http://9to5google.com/)for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Google on\n\n[exclusive stories](https://9to5google.com/feature/exclusive/),\n\n[reviews](https://9to5google.com/guides/reviews/),\n\n[how-tos](https://9to5google.com/guides/how-to/), and\n\n[subscribe to our YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/9to5google)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-foresight-for-mac-turns-scribbles-into-full-notes-using-offline", "canonical_source": "https://9to5google.com/2026/10/06/google-ai-edge-foresight/", "published_at": "2026-10-06 17:15:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 17:20:33.373914+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "EmbeddingGemma 2", "Gemma 4", "Google AI Edge Foresight", "Google AI Edge Gallery", "Google AI Edge Eloquent", "Google Pixel 11 Pro", "Google Drive"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-foresight-for-mac-turns-scribbles-into-full-notes-using-offline", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-foresight-for-mac-turns-scribbles-into-full-notes-using-offline.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-foresight-for-mac-turns-scribbles-into-full-notes-using-offline.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-foresight-for-mac-turns-scribbles-into-full-notes-using-offline.jsonld"}}