‘Google AI’ is coming to the Pixel 9. Here’s what it looks like and everything we know

We realized final week that Google has pushed its Made by Google occasion ahead to August 13, just a few months earlier than its common date. Why? Hypothesis ranges from Google timing its annual occasion to coincide with the following Android launch, to getting a soar on vacation gross sales, to easily asserting its subsequent technology of units earlier than Apple does.

Whereas we might by no means know the precise motive, we now know a minimum of one factor that Google is happy to disclose. Based on AndroidAuthority, the corporate plans to launch new AI options underneath the “Google AI” model for its Pixel 9 collection.

A leaked screenshot reveals that some present options like Circle to Search and Gemini shall be part of Google AI. A number of new AI options are additionally on the way in which, although.

First up is one thing known as “Add Me,” which Google says ensures everybody makes it into a gaggle picture. This could possibly be just like the present Google Images characteristic Greatest Take that mixes a number of photographs into one shot. Maybe you can take an image, change photographers, after which merge the images to incorporate everybody.

Subsequent, there’s one thing known as “Pixel Screenshots,” which Google says lets you “discover the information you want out of your screenshots.” Whenever you activate this characteristic (it is opt-in), it is going to summarize screenshots and help you ask questions to search out them later. Whenever you take new screenshots, the AI characteristic provides metadata like hyperlinks, app names, and the date and time they had been taken.

The notion of getting your screenshots analyzed and saved may increase an eyebrow should you’re involved about privateness, however the AI processes all the pieces regionally, Android Authority says. That may assuage any worries about your information ending up elsewhere, like in Google’s information facilities.

Lastly, there’s “Studio,” which Google described as “You think about it. Pixel creates it.” This sounds just like Apple Picture Playground, a generative AI picture generator that is a part of Apple Intelligence.

For now, these options will solely be obtainable on the Pixel 9 collection, Android Authority says. There is not any phrase if they may ultimately come to different units, as the remainder of Google’s AI-powered add-ons have.

When Google launched the Pixel 8 collection, each the bottom model and the costlier Pixel 8 Professional obtained some — however not all — of Google’s new AI options. If Google follows the identical playbook, a few of these new options might solely be obtainable on the costliest Pixel 9 model.

We must always get official phrase on Google AI in a few month.