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Google unveils AI Edge Gallery, enabling offline AI on Android devices

Users gain private, low-latency AI by running open-source models locally on-device via Google’s AI Edge platform

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Overview

  • The experimental alpha release is available on Android via GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license with an iOS version expected
  • It taps open-source models from Hugging Face along with Google’s compact Gemma3B language model for tasks like text generation
  • Built on the AI Edge platform using TensorFlow Lite and MediaPipe, the app optimizes inference performance on a range of hardware
  • Integrated tools such as AI Chat, Ask Image and a customizable Prompt Lab let users generate images, answer questions and write code without internet
  • Performance varies by device hardware and this launch coincides with a Department of Justice probe into Google’s AI licensing agreements