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Google quietly launches AI Edge Gallery, letting Android phones run AI without the cloud
Google quietly launched AI Edge Gallery, an experimental Android app that runs AI models offline without internet, bringing Hugging Face models directly to smartphones with enhanced privacy.
Google has quietly released an experimental Android application that enables users to run sophisticated artificial intelligence models directly on their smartphones without requiring an internet connection, marking a significant step in the company’s push toward edge computing and privacy-focused AI deployment. The application, released under an open-source Apache 2.0 license and available through GitHub rather than official app stores, represents Google’s latest effort to democratize access to advanced AI capabilities while addressing growing privacy concerns about cloud-based artificial intelligence services. The app includes three core capabilities: AI Chat for multi-turn conversations, Ask Image for visual question-answering, and Prompt Lab for single-turn tasks such as text summarization, code generation, and content rewriting.
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