Google Releases AI Edge Foresight for Offline Meeting Notes

Google has released AI Edge Foresight, a Mac application that uses locally running artificial intelligence to transcribe meetings, organize notes and answer questions without an internet connection.

Google AI Edge Foresight is designed for Apple Silicon computers and uses EmbeddingGemma 2, a model with 740 million parameters. It can capture meeting notes across applications, including during in-person meetings, while keeping the work offline.

The application presents manual shorthand notes beside AI-generated notes in a split-screen workspace. Users can also review the full transcript and ask questions through an assistant powered by Gemma 4.

The tool supports more than live meeting capture. Users can upload PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office files, plain text, Markdown files and web bookmarks to build a local knowledge base. The application can then use those documents and meeting notes to answer questions in real time when relevant information comes up.

The release adds another local-first product to an increasingly competitive meeting-notetaker market. Granola offers a similar workflow that combines manual notes with automated meeting records, while Wispr and Calendly have also released their own notetakers.

Google’s earlier local-model dictation application was experimental. AI Edge Foresight now gives the company another way to demonstrate offline capabilities across its Gemma model family, while the broader meeting-assistant market continues to expand.