Google has unveiled a new application called Edge Gallery, which lets users download and use the company’s AI models on smartphones without the internet.
The Android app can be downloaded and installed through the Google AI Edge GitHub repository. The company announced that an iOS app will be available soon.
“This app is a resource to understand the practical implementation of the LLM Inference API and the potential of on-device generative AI,” said the company in the blog post.
AIM was able to download and install the application on an Android device. The app lets you download its Gemma 3 and 3n models, along with Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 models. Users can install models across three categories: to have conversations, to upload and understand images, and to use ‘Prompt Lab’, a single-turn LLM in which users can ask one prompt, and the model provides one response.
Models of varying sizes are available based on their capabilities; users can download a lightweight model of about 500 MB or a more capable model of approximately 4 GB. To download these models on the Edge Gallery app, users must sign in and agree to usage terms on Hugging Face, a platform where these open-source models are deployed.
Once the model is installed, users can access and engage in conversations with the AI model without an internet connection.
One of the models that Google provides in the Edge Gallery app is the recently announced Gemma 3n model. The small language model is built to operate locally on smartphones, using minimal memory and resources.
Source: Google
On the LMArena leaderboard for text-based tasks, the Gemma 3n scored 1293 points. In comparison, OpenAI’s o3-mini scored 1329 points, and the o4-mini scored 1379 points. The leading model is the Gemini 2.5 Pro model with 1446 points.
Given that the model will not use the internet to fetch real-time information, it will only be able to provide information based on its knowledge cutoff date. For instance, the Gemma 3n model only contains information in its training data up to June 2024.
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