Google AI Edge Gallery launches to macOS
9to5Mac • • technology
Key Points:
- Google has released the Google AI Edge Gallery app for macOS, enabling users to run select Google AI models locally on their Macs, including the newly launched Gemma 4 12B model.
- Gemma 4 12B is a 12-billion-parameter multimodal model capable of handling text, vision, and audio, delivering performance comparable to larger models while running efficiently on consumer laptops with 16GB of RAM.
- Unlike platforms like Ollama and LM Studio that support a wide range of models, Google AI Edge Gallery currently offers access to only five of Google's proprietary instruct-tuned models.
- Alongside the model release, Google launched the AI Edge Eloquent dictation app for Mac, which performs on-device transcription with enhanced text polishing and customization features to improve accuracy and clarity.
- Running models locally provides advantages such as offline use, faster response times depending on hardware, and improved privacy since data does not leave the user's device.