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Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally | TechCrunch

2025-05-31 14:04:46 英文原文

作者:Kyle Wiggers

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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.

Called Google AI Edge Gallery, 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’ processors.

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.

Google AI Edge Gallery
The welcome screens of the Google AI Edge Gallery app for Android.Image Credits:Google

Google AI Edge Gallery, which Google is calling an “experimental Alpha release,” can be downloaded from GitHub by following these instructions. The home screen shows shortcuts to AI tasks and capabilities like “Ask Image” and “AI Chat.” Tapping on a capability pulls up a list of models suited for the task, such as Google’s Gemma 3n.

Google AI Edge Gallery also provides a “Prompt Lab” users can use to kick off “single-turn” 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’ behaviors.

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 — say, answering a question about an image — than smaller models.

Google’s 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 — commercial or otherwise — without restriction.

Kyle Wiggers is TechCrunch’s AI Editor. His writing has appeared in VentureBeat and Digital Trends, as well as a range of gadget blogs including Android Police, Android Authority, Droid-Life, and XDA-Developers. He lives in Manhattan with his partner, a music therapist.

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摘要

Google has quietly launched an app called Google AI Edge Gallery for Android (and soon iOS) that allows users to run various AI models from Hugging Face on their smartphones offline. The app enables downloading and executing AI tasks such as image generation, answering questions, and coding, without requiring internet access or sending data to remote servers. The experimental Alpha release is available on GitHub, featuring a "Prompt Lab" for customizing model behaviors. Performance varies based on device hardware and model size.