Google launches local meeting assistant for Mac

Google describes Foresight as an experimental meeting-companion app for Mac.[1] Google says it uses fully local AI processing for note-taking, indexing, and recalling transcripts and private files.[1] The company also says sensitive data never leaves the device and that the app has no cloud subscription costs.[1]

Foresight integrates with system audio and a microphone, and Google says it works with any meeting platform, including offline.[1] It can enrich shorthand notes with details from the current meeting conversation, detect questions, and have AI answer them live.[1] Users can view the meeting transcript or chat with the assistant for answers, according to Google.[2] TechCrunch reported that the app can use meeting notes and documents to answer questions in real time when related information is in its knowledge base.[2]

Google says users can search images, documents, transcripts, and notes with natural-language queries.[1] The app is powered by EmbeddingGemma 2 and Gemma 4; Google says EmbeddingGemma 2 has 740 million parameters in its full multimodal configuration.[1] The Verge reported that Foresight is free to use, runs on macOS, and is currently optimized only for Macs with Apple Silicon.[3] That reported hardware limitation matters to teams considering deployment: Mac availability does not by itself mean every Mac model is optimized for the app.[1][3]

The Verge compared Foresight with Granola and Wispr Flow, noting that it summarizes meetings and lets users take their own notes.[3] TechCrunch reported a split-screen layout for shorthand notes and AI-generated notes, as well as the ability to capture meeting notes across apps, including in-person meetings.[2] TechCrunch also reported that Wispr and Calendly released their own note-takers in the preceding months.[2]