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A characteristic you thought wasn’t coming to your Google Pixel 8 is coming to your Pixel 8, in any case. It’s Gemini Nano, the on-device AI that lately launched on the Pixel 8 Professional, however Google claimed it wouldn’t work on the cheaper Pixel 8. Backtracking on earlier statements is never a great factor, however this time, it has a contented ending.
Gemini Nano — the identify given to essentially the most environment friendly model of Google’s Gemini AI, becoming a member of Gemini Professional and Extremely — arrived on the Pixel 8 Professional in an replace in December 2023. It was excellent news, however Pixel 8 homeowners had been oddly overlooked. In an episode of the Android Builders podcast in March 2024, it was then claimed Gemini Nano wouldn’t function on the non-Professional Pixel 8 in any respect as a consequence of unspecified {hardware} limitations, which was a blow to homeowners of the cheaper telephone because it even makes use of the identical processor because the Professional mannequin.
What’s occurred since then? Both Google jumped the gun or heard the complaints about not supporting the Pixel 8 as a result of the state of affairs has now modified. Within the subsequent Pixel characteristic drop, Gemini Nano (and presumably, Google’s AICore system service app) will arrive on the Pixel 8 as a developer preview the place it’ll energy the Summarize characteristic within the Recorder app and the Good Reply characteristic within the Gboard keyboard app.
The corporate says it has been testing Nano on the Pixel 8 to confirm if gadgets with much less RAM can nonetheless run it with out compromising on person expertise. The reply appears to be that it will possibly, because the Pixel 8 has 8GB of RAM in comparison with the Pixel 8 Professional’s 12GB of RAM. It’s an odd state of affairs, although, as Gemini Nano operates on the Samsung Galaxy S24 sequence, the place the most affordable model of the non-Plus, non-Extremely S24, has 8GB of RAM too. These telephones don’t use the Google Tensor G3 processor however Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Gen 3 processor as a substitute.
On the time of writing, Google has not supplied an arrival date for the characteristic drop replace that can carry Gemini Nano to the Pixel 8. Nevertheless, it has already launched an replace for Pixel gadgets this month, which can imply it gained’t arrive for a number of months but. Nevertheless, at the least it’s coming, and Google hasn’t totally forgotten a few system it solely launched on the finish of final 12 months in any case.
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