Google releases AI Edge Foresight, a local-first Granola competitor for Mac

Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, a Mac AI note-taker that can work completely offline using the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model with 740 million parameters. The app captures meeting notes across apps, including in-person meetings, and offers a split-screen view for shorthand notes alongside AI-generated notes, plus a transcript view and a chat assistant powered by Gemma 4. Users can also upload PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office formats, plain text, Markdown and web bookmarks to build a knowledge base that the app draws on to answer questions in real time. Google says the app is optimized for Apple Silicon and works fully offline, following an earlier experimental AI dictation tool from the same team.