Google's Pixel 8 series, featuring AI capabilities, will not acquire the Gemini Nano, excluding some AI apps powered by the model, including Google's LLM for mobile.
Google debuted the Pixel 8 (evaluate) series a year ago with a strong AI push. However, it has also produced a few AI capabilities that have made the Pixel 8 Pro unique. The business has now officially announced that the Pixel 8 will not acquire the Gemini Nano anytime soon, which means that some AI apps powered by the AI model will be absent from the reduced Pixel phone. First off, Google's LLM (Big Language Product) for mobile, which leverages the Android AICore architecture, is resized into a Gemini Nano.
Additional AI features on the Pixel 8 Professional (evaluation) are enabled, including the ability to summarize content in the Recorder app and use Gboard's intelligent reply feature in several messaging apps. A Google engineer stated in the most recent Android Present episode (via 9to5Google) that the Gemini Nano will never be included in the Pixel 8. The stated reason was because of the phone's "hardware limitations."
Although it did not go into specifics, the bottleneck is most likely caused by the Pixel 8's 8 GB of RAM instead of the Pixel 8 Professional's 12 GB of RAM. Strangely, the Gemini Nano is also utilized in the conventional Samsung Galaxy S24 (overview) design and comes with 8 GB of RAM. Thus, there's a good chance that the latter chip's NPU capabilities have also been a constraint.
