Google Challenges Apple’s AI Missteps With Local Gemma AI for Mac
… The app is said to offer privacy improvements over online Gemma access, as processing occurs locally, keeping prompts and responses on the user's device. …
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Gemma is a family of open-weight language models released by Google for text generation and related NLP tasks.
… The app is said to offer privacy improvements over online Gemma access, as processing occurs locally, keeping prompts and responses on the user's device. …
… In another test using Gemma 4 E4B, it managed 108 tokens per second, compared to the RTX 3060's mere 76 tokens per second. It needed nearly 200W of power to do that, but when power limited to just 100W, it achieved similar results: 95 tokens on the same test using Gemma 4. …
… This means users can record and transcribe audio in places with poor or no network access. The app uses Google's Gemma-based speech models to convert speech to text and clean up the resulting transcript. …