Google Launches Offline AI Meeting Note-Taker to Rival Granola
Google’s Mac app processes meetings entirely on-device with the 740-million-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model, enabling offline transcription and notes. It also uses a Gemma 4 assistant to query transcripts and uploaded PDFs, Docs, Office files, and more.
Google released a new AI-powered meeting note-taking app in October 2026 called Google AI Edge Foresight, designed to transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions entirely without an internet connection.
The Mac app runs on-device using the EmbeddingGemma 2 model, which has 740 million parameters, and is optimized for Apple Silicon. It can capture meeting notes across apps, including in-person meetings, and works offline — meaning users can access their notes while traveling or in areas without connectivity.
The app directly targets Granola, a popular AI note-taker, with a similar split-screen layout: users write shorthand notes on one side while AI-generated notes appear on the other. Like Granola, it supports manual note-taking during live transcription. Google AI Edge Foresight also lets users view full meeting transcripts and query a Gemma 4-powered assistant for answers.
Users can upload documents — including PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office files, plain text, Markdown, and web bookmarks — to build a personal knowledge base. The app can then draw on that knowledge base to answer questions in real time during meetings.
The app comes from the same Google team that released an experimental AI dictation tool in April 2026, which did not reach mainstream adoption. Google AI Edge Foresight may serve a similar purpose of demonstrating the capabilities of its Gemma series of offline models, though Google could also release a consumer-facing version that integrates with video calling apps via its Gemini platform and cloud models.
The release comes as the meeting note-taker market grows more crowded. Dictation company Wispr and scheduling platform Calendly recently launched their own note-taking tools, while productivity startup Superhuman — formerly Grammarly — acquired YC-backed note-taker Fathom last month.