Google has launched Google AI Edge Foresight, an experimental note-taking application for macOS that operates entirely offline. This new tool is designed to transcribe and summarize meetings, leveraging Google's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model for local processing. The primary advantage of this approach is enhanced user privacy, as all audio processing and note generation occur directly on the user's computer, with no data transmitted to external cloud servers.
The application aims to streamline the note-taking process during meetings. Users can jot down shorthand bullet points, which Foresight then expands into more polished notes using the live meeting transcript. The interface presents a split-screen view, displaying the user's shorthand notes alongside the AI-generated notes. Beyond transcription, Foresight can also answer questions about the meeting content by drawing from a knowledge base built from user-uploaded documents such as PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office files, plain text, Markdown, and web bookmarks. This feature allows for conversational retrieval and summarization, with a "Live Assistance" capability designed to automatically answer questions during a call.
Google AI Edge Foresight is optimized for Apple Silicon, a design choice that contributes to its low-latency performance and minimal battery drain. The EmbeddingGemma 2 model, which powers the application, is a multimodal embedding model with 740 million parameters. It can process text, code, images, video, and audio, mapping them into a unified 768-dimensional vector space. The model's modular architecture allows for selective loading of components, enabling different configurations based on the required modalities, from text-only to full multimodal processing. This local-first approach positions Foresight as a direct competitor to other AI note-taking applications like Granola and Wispr, many of which rely on cloud-based processing.
While the application is available for macOS, details regarding its pricing, general availability date, or specific Apple Silicon chip requirements have not been publicly disclosed. Google has also not indicated plans for Windows or cross-platform synchronization with services like Gmail.