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GOOGLE BRINGS AI EDGE TOOLS TO MACOS

AI DESK1 MIN READ
WED, JUN 10, 2026

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Google has released macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery and AI Edge Eloquent, enabling users to run open AI models locally on their devices. The tools include support for Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 12B model.

AI Edge Gallery allows users to run open-source models directly on their laptops without cloud connectivity. AI Edge Eloquent provides on-device voice dictation powered by local processing. Gemma 4 12B is designed to deliver agentic, multimodal capabilities to desktop machines. The release follows Google's broader push toward on-device AI, competing with Apple's similar efforts to run intelligence locally. Meanwhile, Google and Nvidia are supporting Apple's new Apple Foundation Models, which power Apple Intelligence. Google also introduced DiffusionGemma, a 26B-parameter experimental model using text diffusion for faster generation—up to 4x speedier inference on GPUs compared to traditional autoregressive approaches. In regulatory news, a German court ruled Google is directly liable for false statements in AI Overviews, barring the company from making similar claims after the feature incorrectly linked two publishers to fraudulent activities.

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