The Google Pixel 9A might have the identical Tensor G4 chip as its costlier counterparts, however it comes with a text-only model of Gemini AI. Google confirmed to Ars Technica that the Pixel 9A doesn’t have entry to sure options, just like the AI-powered Pixel Screenshots app, due to the telephone’s decrease 8GB of reminiscence.
Unlike the Gemini Nano XS mannequin that comes with the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold, the Pixel 9A has a good smaller on-device AI mannequin: Gemini Nano 1.0 XXS, in line with Ars Technica. For comparability, the Pixel 9 comes with 12GB of RAM, whereas the Pixel 9 Pro and Pro Fold have 16GB. On the Pixel 9A, Gemini Nano XXS solely runs when wanted, and doesn’t function within the background, Ars Technica says.
Along with Pixel Screenshots, which makes use of AI to make your screenshots searchable, Ars Technica additionally confirmed that the Pixel 9A doesn’t assist Call Notes, a function that generates AI summaries of telephone calls. It can nonetheless present summaries of audio from the Recorder app, nonetheless, because it depends on transcriptions.
Last yr, Google solely added Gemini AI to the Pixel 8 Pro – not the Pixel 8 – however later launched it on the midrange machine following person complaints. The mannequin used on the Pixel 8 is Gemini Nano XXS, Google tells Ars Technica.
