Google Releases an AI Meeting Note-Taker That Works Offline on Macs

Meeting notes and an AI assistant can now travel together without an internet connection. Google has released Google AI Edge Foresight, a Mac app that captures meetings and answers questions using notes and uploaded documents. According to Google’s FAQ, cited by TechCrunch, the app can work completely offline and is optimized for Apple Silicon.

Foresight captures meeting notes across apps, including notes from in-person meetings. Its interface resembles Granola: a split-screen view puts shorthand notes written by the user on one side and AI-generated notes on the other. The app also lets users keep taking manual notes while it transcribes the meeting.

Users can view the transcript, read the generated notes or work with their own shorthand. They can also ask a Gemma 4-powered assistant questions about the meeting material instead of only reviewing the text.

Meeting notes become part of a document collection

The assistant is not limited to what was said in a meeting. Users can upload documents and web bookmarks to build a knowledge base—a collection of material the app can use when answering questions. Supported inputs span office documents, simple text files and saved web references:

• PDFs, Google Docs and Microsoft Office files.
• Plain text and Markdown files.
• Web bookmarks.

Foresight can use both meeting notes and those documents to answer questions in real time when a related point comes up. This gives the uploaded collection a role during the meeting itself, not just afterward.

Two Gemma models, a local-first app

TechCrunch identifies two models behind Foresight. The app uses the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model, which has 740 million parameters, while Gemma 4 powers the question-answering assistant.