The Pixel 8 Pro will now turn into the primary Android smartphone to be powered by Google’s next-generation AI model, Gemini, starting today, the corporate announced. Gemini Nano, a version of the model designed for running on-device, as on smartphones, will now leverage Google’s Tensor G3 to deliver two Pixel 8 Pro features, Summarize in Recorder and Smart Reply in Gboard. Since the AI runs on-device, it is going to help keep sensitive data from leaving the phone in addition to allow for the usage of the features even should you’re with out a network connection.

Gemini Nano is essentially the most efficient version of Google’s latest AI model, designed to run on devices, like smartphones. With its launch, it is going to now be the brains behind an AI summarizer feature within the Recorder app on the Pixel 8 Pro. The Recorder app, which lets users push a button to record and transcribe audio, will now include a Gemini-powered summary of your recorded conversations, interviews, presentations or other audio. With the shift to Gemini Nano, users will find a way to get these summaries even in the event that they don’t have a signal or Wi-Fi connection available.

This feature will probably be available on Pixel 8 Pro devices starting today. As well as, the Recorder app now transcribes in 28 latest languages.

Meanwhile, Gemini Nano is coming to Gboard, Google’s keyboard app, as a developer preview. Here, it is going to power a feature called Smart Reply which helps to suggest the following thing you’ll wish to say when having a conversation in a messaging app. The feature will initially work with WhatsApp, but will come to more apps in 2024, Google says. With Gemini Nano, the responses suggested will probably be of upper quality, the corporate claims, because the AI model could have more conversational awareness.

Along with running Gemini Nano on the device, Android users will find a way to tap into the brand new Gemini model via Bard. Early next 12 months, this may even include powering Assistant with Bard on Pixel devices, essentially upgrading Google’s answer to Siri with a model that’s as smart and much more capable in some areas than something like ChatGPT.

Longer-term, the impacts of improved AI on devices could prompt people to make the switch to Android. Combined with the launch of Beeper, an app bringing iMessage to Android, some are already considering the potential for moving to their preferred Android device. Plus, Google’s advances in AI are making its Pixel phone a more AI-enabled smartphone, with a bevy of AI features, like Magic Editor and Best Soak up Google Photos, Assistant with Bard, AI-powered call screening and more.

Alongside the Gemini-powered features, the Pixel 8 Pro received other latest features, Google announced today via a blog post. This features a Video Boost feature that leverages the Tensor G3 to upload video to the cloud where computational models adjust the video’s color, lighting, stabilization, and graininess. This also enables Night Sight video on the Pixel 8 Pro, which uses AI to use noise reduction to videos recorded at nighttime or in other low-light conditions, including timelapse videos.

One other latest AI model in Google Photos may even improve Portrait light, while a Photo Unblur feature is now capable of sharpen images of dogs and cats who wiggle during photos.

Other Pixel devices are getting upgrades, too, like a “Dual Screen Preview” mode on Pixel Fold, for previewing photos.

Plus, Pixel Fold and Pixel 6 and newer phones will find a way to connect with a pc via USB to make use of the phone because the webcam on video calls. Those devices may even now suggest “contextual replies” during Call Screen, which has arrived on the Pixel Watch, too. Pixel’s Direct My Call and Hold for Me features have expanded to business numbers with out a toll-free prefix and are actually available within the U.K.

A latest “Clean” feature will remove smudges and stains from scanned documents. Just a few other features around security, authentication, latest widgets and others focused on the Pixel Watch and Pixel Tablet are detailed on the Google blog.