Google ships Google AI Edge Foresight, an on-device macOS meeting assistant

The app fits Google's Labs pattern of shipping early, free experiments rather than finished products. Suril Shah announced it as "our newest Labs app," and Google positions it as experimental at the time of writing. It leans on Apple's Mac platform specifically: by pulling audio from Mac system sound and the microphone, it avoids tying itself to any single video conferencing service, a constraint that cloud meeting assistants often carry.

The feature set points at a workflow rather than a single tool. Users jot shorthand notes during a meeting and Foresight expands them using the live conversation; the screen can show typed notes next to AI-organized notes. A Gemma 4-powered assistant then answers natural-language questions by referencing transcripts and stored documents, and Google says it can detect questions raised aloud in a meeting and surface answers on the spot.

Google's stated rationale for local processing is twofold: keeping confidential information on the device, and removing the need for a cloud service subscription. Because everything runs on the Mac, the app remains usable in environments without internet access — a distinction that matters for the confidentiality argument, though it is likely to be weighed against the limits of running models on a laptop rather than in a data center.