Google releases a brand new local-first Granola competitor

Earlier in April, Google launched an AI-powered dictation tool that worked with local models. Now, the identical group has launched a brand new competitor to the AI note-taker Granola and others, which it calls Google AI Edge Foresight.

The Mac app can work fully offline, using the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 mannequin, with 740 million parameters, to seize assembly notes throughout apps, together with these from in-person conferences.

The app is just like the favored AI note-taker Granola as a result of it has a split-screen view with the power to write down shorthand notes on one aspect and AI-generated notes on the opposite aspect.

Like Granola, it additionally enables you to take guide notes whereas transcribing the assembly. Plus, in Google’s app, you possibly can view the transcript of the assembly or chat with the Gemma 4-powered assistant to get solutions.

In addition, customers can add paperwork together with PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office codecs, plain textual content, Markdown, and internet bookmarks to construct a data base. Using your assembly notes and paperwork, the app can reply questions in actual time if a degree associated to information within the data base comes up.

On its FAQ web page, the corporate specified that Google AI Edge Foresight is optimized for Apple Silicon and may fully work offline. This means you possibly can work along with your assembly notes if you end up touring or in a spot with out an web connection.

While Google’s earlier dictation app was an experimental one which didn’t make it to mainstream utilization, its new assembly note-taker could possibly be simply to showcase the power of its Gemma collection of offline fashions.

However, Google may very nicely launch a client model of assembly note-taker that works throughout video calling apps by way of its Gemini apps whereas counting on its cloud fashions.

The assembly note-taker house is aggressive and crowded. But that hasn’t stopped corporations from creating their very own instruments. In the previous few months, dictation firm Wispr and scheduling firm Calendly launched their very own notetakers. Meanwhile, productiveness startup Superhuman (previously Grammarly) acquired YC-backed notetaker Fathom final month.