Google’s Gemini Nano AI is hitting the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra

Your favourite AI chatbot depends on a big language mannequin (LLM) that’s far too giant to run in your smartphone, however that doesn’t imply your cellphone can’t run a LLM in any respect. The truth is, there are variations of standard LLMs which were trimmed down a lot that they will run domestically on cellular units, with the trade-off being they’re extra restricted of their complexity. Gemini Nano, for instance, is the mobile-optimized model of the Google Gemini LLM, and it may be discovered on a handful of telephones from Google, Samsung, and Xiaomi. Now, Gemini Nano is coming to telephones from Motorola.

After I shared the information final week that Gemini Nano is coming to the Xiaomi 14T, considered one of my followers on X who goes by the username Nhyphk reached out to me to inform me that his Motorola cellphone additionally obtained the AI mannequin. After a little bit of backwards and forwards, I used to be in a position to affirm that Gemini Nano is certainly rolling out to his Motorola cellphone, the Motorola Edge 50 Extremely.

His Motorola Edge 50 Extremely obtained an replace to the AICore app from Google Play that introduced it to model 0.launch.qc8635.670632439. AICore is the system app that’s accountable for downloading the Gemini Nano mannequin and offering an API that apps can name to make use of it. After he downloaded the AICore replace, he opened the Google Messages app and tapped the Magic Compose button, which prompted AICore to obtain the roughly 1.25GB Gemini Nano mannequin. The “about” display for Magic Compose then confirmed the function was operating on-device.

Magic Compose, should you aren’t conscious, is a function within the Google Messages app that implies canned responses that you could ship to your contacts. It analyzes the final 20 messages in a dialog to generate instructed replies. To guard your privateness, these messages are analyzed on-device utilizing Gemini Nano.

Past Magic Compose, there aren’t some other options on the Motorola Edge 50 Extremely we all know of that depend on Gemini Nano — at the least not but. Google promised builders it could launch an API that lets them use Gemini Nano of their apps, however that API continues to be in personal preview. Firms like Adobe plan to make use of Gemini Nano to offer on-device doc summaries, but it surely hasn’t launched that function but.

In any case, with the addition of the Motorola Edge 50 Extremely, there are actually a complete of 14 premium Android telephones that assist the Gemini Nano AI mannequin. The Google Pixel 8 collection, Samsung Galaxy S24 collection, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Xiaomi 14T Professional are all confirmed to assist Gemini Nano 1.0, whereas everything of the Google Pixel 9 collection helps the newer Gemini Nano with multimodality mannequin.

It’s unclear if the common Xiaomi 14T will really get Gemini Nano assist, or if solely the Professional mannequin will, however what is obvious is that Google is getting critical about bringing its on-device LLM to extra units. Hopefully it follows swimsuit by rolling out extra options that really make the most of it, so the ~1.25GB obtain doesn’t really feel like a waste of house.