Google 发布离线会议笔记应用 AI Edge Foresight
Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor
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Google 发布 Mac 应用 AI Edge Foresight，可完全离线运行，使用 7.4 亿参数的端侧 EmbeddingGemma 2 模型跨应用记录会议笔记。界面与 Granola 类似，一侧速记、一侧生成 AI 笔记，支持手动记录与转写，并可用 Gemma 4 驱动的助手问答；用户还能上传 PDF、Google Docs、Microsoft Office 文档、纯文本、Markdown 和网页书签构建知识库，在会议中实时回答相关问题。Google 在 FAQ 中说明该应用针对 Apple Silicon 优化。
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Google 把会议笔记做成完全离线的 Mac 端应用，与 Granola 形成直接对照，可观察端侧模型在办公场景的落地路径。
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Earlier in April, Google released an AI-powered dictation tool that worked with local models . Now, the same team has released a new competitor to the AI note-taker Granola and others, which it calls Google AI Edge Foresight .
The Mac app can work completely offline, utilizing the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model, with 740 million parameters, to capture meeting notes across apps, including those from in-person meetings.
The app is similar to the popular AI note-taker Granola because it has a split-screen view with the ability to write shorthand notes on one side and AI-generated notes on the other side.
Like Granola, it also lets you take manual notes while transcribing the meeting. Plus, in Google’s app, you can view the transcript of the meeting or chat with the Gemma 4-powered assistant to get answers.
In addition, users can upload documents including PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office formats, plain text, Markdown, and web bookmarks to build a knowledge base. Using your meeting notes and documents, the app can answer questions in real time if a point related to data in the knowledge base comes up.
On its FAQ page, the company specified that Google AI Edge Foresight is optimized for Apple Silicon and can completely work offline. This means you can work with your meeting notes when you are traveling or in a place without an internet connection.
While Google’s earlier dictation app was an experimental one that didn’t make it to mainstream usage, its new meeting note-taker could be just to showcase the ability of its Gemma series of offline models.
However, Google could very well release a consumer version of meeting note-taker that works across video calling apps through its Gemini apps while relying on its cloud models.
The meeting note-taker space is competitive and crowded. But that hasn’t stopped companies from creating their own tools. In the last few months, dictation company Wispr and scheduling company Calendly released their own note-takers. Meanwhile, productivity startup Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) acquired YC-backed note-taker Fathom last month.
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