To make Gemini Nano run nicely on a tool with 8GB of RAM, Google needed to make some sacrifices. On the extra minor facet, Gemini Nano 1.0 XXS would not run constantly within the background, in contrast to the flagship Pixels. The Pixel 9a solely hundreds Gemini XXS (and eats into your RAM) when the mannequin is required, which could make some encompasses a bit much less responsive. A extra severe downside is the dearth of multimodality—Gemini Nano 1.0 XXS is text-only.
We’ve got confirmed that the extra restricted Gemini Nano XXS means you will not get Google’s Pixel Screenshots app on the Pixel 9a because it can’t course of pictures. On the flagship Pixels, this app collects all of your screenshots and runs them via Gemini Nano on-device. This creates a searchable database of the content material in your screenshots—it is positively some of the helpful functions of generative AI on cellular, so it is a bummer to lose that on the 9a.
Name Notes, a characteristic that makes use of native AI evaluation to create summaries of a cellphone dialog, can also be unavailable. This characteristic requires audio processing, which Gemini Nano XXS can’t do. We additionally suspect however can’t verify that cellphone name rip-off detection, which was introduced for Pixels this month, will not be included within the 9a.
Pixel Screenshots is considered one of Google’s coolest AI options, however it’s not obtainable on the 9a.
Pixel Screenshots is considered one of Google’s coolest AI options, however it’s not obtainable on the 9a.
There are, nevertheless, some AI options that unexpectedly work simply superb. Google says the Pixel 9a nonetheless helps Recorder summaries as a result of the AI would not work immediately on the audio. The app creates transcriptions with out counting on Gemini, after which the text-only Gemini Nano XXS creates summaries from the textual content.
These AI variations aren’t clear within the slightest, and Google would not name out lacking options on the product web page. There isn’t a technique to work together immediately with Gemini Nano on the Pixel—it is solely there to energy particular options as dictated by Google. So, the 9a’s AI limitations are nonetheless hazy. We’ve got not but been in a position to verify with Google all of the AI options which are lacking on this cellphone, so it might take hands-on testing to get the complete image.
