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Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor
Publisher description: Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.
TechCrunch | Oct 8, 2026 | Ivan Mehta
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The Mac app can work completely offline, utilizing the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model, with 740 million parameters, to capture meeting notes across apps, including those from in-person meetings. Like Granola, it also lets you take manual notes while transcribing the meeting. The meeting note-taker space is competitive and crowded.
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