{"slug": "google-launches-a-tiny-board-that-runs-gemma-3-locally", "title": "Google launches a tiny board that runs Gemma 3 locally", "summary": "Google unveiled the Coral Board at Google I/O, a compact single-board computer designed to run AI models like Gemma 3 270M entirely on-device without cloud connectivity. The board, built on a Synaptics Astra SL2619 chip with 1 TOPS of compute, targets small devices such as headphones, AR glasses, and smartwatches to address fragmentation among AI accelerators. Google demonstrated real-time translation and generative music at the event, with all demos open-sourced on GitHub, though pricing and a summer shipping date remain unannounced.", "body_md": "# Google launches a tiny board that runs Gemma 3 locally\n\n**Google unveiled the new Coral Board at Google I/O - a compact single-board computer for on-device AI.** The board features the [Coral NPU](https://developers.google.com/coral), an open-source machine learning unit built on the RISC-V architecture and developed by Google Research. It's designed for small devices like headphones, AR glasses, and smartwatches, and aims to fix the fragmentation problem among AI accelerators.\n\nAt its core sits a [Synaptics Astra SL2619](https://www.synaptics.com/company/news/google-research-and-synaptics-launch-next-generation-coral-dev-board-for-developers-to-bring-multimodal-edge-ai-applications-to-life) chip with a 2 GHz dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 1 TOPS of compute. Google's slightly older open-source language model [Gemma 3 270M](https://the-decoder.com/google-unveils-gemma-3-270m-its-most-compact-model-designed-for-efficient-task-specific-ai-use/) runs entirely on the board - no cloud needed. At [I/O](https://the-decoder.com/google-overhauls-its-ai-subscriptions-at-i-o-2026-with-three-tiers-starting-at-10-a-month/), Google showed demos including real-time translation, voice-controlled hardware, and a [generative music performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG1bDAcJY9w&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnx-software.com%2F) where a YOLOv8 model tracked jellyfish movements and turned them into music. All demos are [open source on GitHub](https://github.com/google-coral). The board is expected to ship this summer, but Google hasn't announced a price yet.\n\n```\nAI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive \"AI Radar\" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\n```\n\n[X/Google](https://x.com/googlegemma/status/2059740184930074758)|\n\n[Google Developers](https://developers.google.com/coral)|\n\n[Synaptics](https://www.synaptics.com/company/news/google-research-and-synaptics-launch-next-generation-coral-dev-board-for-developers-to-bring-multimodal-edge-ai-applications-to-life)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-a-tiny-board-that-runs-gemma-3-locally", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/google-launches-a-tiny-board-that-runs-gemma-3-locally/", "published_at": "2026-05-28 14:29:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:10:46.864916+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "ai-chips", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Google", "Coral Board", "Coral NPU", "Synaptics Astra SL2619", "Gemma 3 270M", "Google I/O", "YOLOv8", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-a-tiny-board-that-runs-gemma-3-locally", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-a-tiny-board-that-runs-gemma-3-locally.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-a-tiny-board-that-runs-gemma-3-locally.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-launches-a-tiny-board-that-runs-gemma-3-locally.jsonld"}}