{"slug": "google-ai-edge-gallery-launches-on-macos-letting-mac-users-run-gemini-models", "title": "Google AI Edge Gallery launches on macOS, letting Mac users run Gemini models locally", "summary": "Google launched Google AI Edge Gallery for macOS, allowing Mac users to run Gemma models locally on their devices. The company also released the Gemma 4 12B model, a multimodal AI with 12 billion parameters designed for local agentic tasks, and introduced the Google AI Edge Eloquent dictation app for Mac. These releases expand Google's local AI ecosystem, offering users privacy and offline capabilities while running AI models directly on their computers.", "body_md": "In addition to Google AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run Gemma models locally on their Macs, the company also released the Gemma 4 12B model and the Google AI Edge Eloquent dictation app for the Mac. Here are the details.\n\n## A bit of background\n\nThe majority of users who rely on LLMs for everyday tasks tend to use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, which are cloud-based models running on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google’s servers.\n\nAnother way to interact with LLMs is through local models. These are usually much smaller and less capable than the trillion-parameter models that run in the cloud, but they also come with several advantages.\n\nFor one, being less capable than cloud-based models does not mean they are *bad*. Also, they do not require an active internet connection, since they run on the computer’s own processing power. Additionally, the better the computer, the faster the responses, and the larger the models it can handle. And finally, because everything runs locally, these models are more private too, since conversation data does not need to leave the device.\n\nThere are a few ways to install local models on a Mac, and [we covered this here](https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/06/how-to-run-gpt-oss-20b-on-mac/), when OpenAI released its own open models. But in a nutshell, you need to install platforms such as [Ollama](https://ollama.com) and [LM Studio](https://lmstudio.ai), and then install a model that can runs smoothly on your Mac’s hardware.\n\n[Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co) hosts thousands of open models to choose from, including those from frontier labs. However, platforms such as Ollama and LM Studio also offer ways to install these models directly from them.\n\nWhich brings us to [Google AI Edge Gallery](https://developers.google.com/edge/gallery), Google’s platform for running AI models locally. Google already offered a Google AI Edge Gallery app for Android and for iOS, but today the company released it for macOS as well.\n\n## Google AI Edge Gallery and Gemma 4 12B\n\nOne thing to note right from the get-go is that, contrary to Ollama and LM Studio, which allow users to install any AI model compatible with their hardware, Google AI Edge Gallery for Mac currently only offers access to 5 of Google’s own models, where ‘it’ stands for instruct, meaning they can be tuned to follow user instructions rather than simply complete text:\n\n- Gemma-4-12B-it\n- Gemma-4-E2B-it\n- Gemma-4-E4B-it\n- Gemma-3n-E2B-it\n- Gemma-3n-E4B-it\n\nThe top item on the list is particularly notable. [Gemma 4 12B](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12B/) was released today, and it was designed to bring agentic, multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop,” according to Google.\n\nWhile most consumer-facing local models from frontier AI labs tend to stay somewhere between 2 billion and 9 billion parameters, Google says Gemma 4’s 12-billion-parameter design delivers performance comparable to its 26-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, while still being “small enough to run locally on consumer laptops with 16GB of RAM.”\n\nGemma 4 12B is also multimodal, which means it can handle text, vision, and audio. Google says that the model also packs good coding capabilities, “allowing you to extract meaningful insights from your data right on your device.”\n\nYou can learn more about Google AI Edge Gallery [here](https://developers.googleblog.com/bringing-gemma-4-12b-to-your-laptop-unlocking-local-agentic-workflows-with-google-ai-edge/), and you can learn more about Gemma 4 12B [here](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12B/).\n\n## Google AI Edge Eloquent\n\nAlongside Gemma 12B and the release of Google AI Edge Gallery for macOS, Google also launched the [Google AI Edge Eloquent](https://developers.google.com/edge/eloquent) app for Mac today, after bringing the app to iOS a few months ago.\n\nGoogle AI Edge Eloquent is a free dictation app that captures what users say and transcribes it while polishing the text, removing disfluencies, and making light edits for clarity and flow. Processing is done on-device, rather than on the cloud.\n\nThe app also lets users choose between different writing styles and add custom words, such as names, jargon, and other terms they use often. That helps avoid the kind of frequent miscorrections that dictation apps can otherwise make with specific words and phrases.\n\nYou can learn more about Google AI Edge eloquent [here](https://developers.google.com/edge/eloquent).\n\n#### Worth checking out on Amazon\n\n[David Pogue – ’Apple: The First 50 Years’](https://amzn.to/46Y3nQj)[MacBook Neo](https://amzn.to/47vJmkn)[Logitech MX Master 4](https://amzn.to/3KmIQN7)[AirPods Pro 3](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Cancellation-Translation-Headphones-High-Fidelity/dp/B0FQFB8FMG?tag=marcmendes-20)[AirTag (2nd Generation) – 4 Pack](https://amzn.to/4sewc3a)[Apple Watch Series 11](https://amzn.to/46VomDB)[Wireless CarPlay adapter](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F6T6N2B1?tag=marcmendes-20)\n\n*FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.* [More.](https://9to5mac.com/about/#affiliate)\n\n[our homepage](http://9to5mac.com/)for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on\n\n[exclusive stories](https://9to5mac.com/feature/exclusive/),\n\n[reviews](https://9to5mac.com/guides/review/),\n\n[how-tos](https://9to5mac.com/guides/how-to/), and\n\n[subscribe to our YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/9to5mac)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-gallery-launches-on-macos-letting-mac-users-run-gemini-models", "canonical_source": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/03/google-ai-edge-gallery-launches-to-macos-letting-mac-users-run-gemini-models-locally/", "published_at": "2026-06-04 02:58:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-04 03:01:01.391937+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini", "Gemma", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Ollama", "LM Studio", "Hugging Face"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-gallery-launches-on-macos-letting-mac-users-run-gemini-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-gallery-launches-on-macos-letting-mac-users-run-gemini-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-gallery-launches-on-macos-letting-mac-users-run-gemini-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-edge-gallery-launches-on-macos-letting-mac-users-run-gemini-models.jsonld"}}