Google launches a tiny board that runs Gemma 3 locally

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.

Google launches a tiny board that runs Gemma 3 locally 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. At 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. AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe 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. Subscribe now X/Google https://x.com/googlegemma/status/2059740184930074758 | Google Developers https://developers.google.com/coral | 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