{"id":147575,"date":"2025-05-31T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147575\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T19:32:14","slug":"google-quietly-released-an-app-that-lets-you-download-and-run-ai-models-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147575\/","title":{"rendered":"Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/google-ai-edge\/gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Google AI Edge Gallery<\/a>, the app is available for Android and will soon come to iOS. It allows users to find, download, and run compatible models that generate images, answer questions, write and edit code, and more. The models run offline, without needing an internet connection, tapping into supported phones\u2019 processors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI models running in the cloud are often more powerful than their local counterparts, but they also have their downsides. Some users might be wary of sending personal or sensitive data to a remote data center, or want to have models available without needing to find a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3064\" height=\"1938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/445716698-4f2702d7-91a0-4eb3-aa76-58bc8e7089c6.png\" alt=\"Google AI Edge Gallery\" class=\"wp-image-3013693\"  \/>The welcome screens of the Google AI Edge Gallery app for Android.<strong>Image Credits:<\/strong>Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google AI Edge Gallery, which Google is calling an \u201cexperimental Alpha release,\u201d can be downloaded from GitHub by following <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/google-ai-edge\/gallery\/wiki\" target=\"_blank\">these instructions<\/a>. The home screen shows shortcuts to AI tasks and capabilities like \u201cAsk Image\u201d and \u201cAI Chat.\u201d Tapping on a capability pulls up a list of models suited for the task, such as Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/20\/the-newest-google-gemma-ai-model-can-run-on-phones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gemma 3n<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google AI Edge Gallery also provides a \u201cPrompt Lab\u201d users can use to kick off \u201csingle-turn\u201d tasks powered by models, like summarizing and rewriting text. The Prompt Lab comes with several task templates and configurable settings to fine-tune the models\u2019 behaviors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your mileage may vary in terms of performance, Google warns. Modern devices with more powerful hardware will predictably run models faster, but the model size also matters. Larger models will take more time to complete a task \u2014 say, answering a question about an image \u2014 than smaller models. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google\u2019s inviting members of the developer community to give feedback on the Google AI Edge Gallery experience. The app is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used in most contexts \u2014 commercial or otherwise \u2014 without restriction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,3836,1942,867,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-147575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114604116750439181","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}