All the AI features coming to Google’s Pixel 9 series

Google’s Pixel 9 lineup is officially here, and the institution can’t halt talking astir the AI features it’s got coming.

On the hardware front, Google boosted the RAM for each of its caller phones to accommodate memory-hungry on-device AI. The Pixel 9 received 12GB of RAM, portion the remainder volition person 16GB of memory.

But the bigger broadside of the communicative is bundle — the phones each get a fistful of caller Pixel-exclusive AI features. And the Pro phones are besides getting a twelvemonth of Google One AI Premium, which comes with entree to Gemini Advanced, Google’s astir susceptible AI system.

Here’s a rundown of the biggest Pixel 9 AI features Google announced today.

Remember things with Pixel Screenshots

Google’s caller Pixel Screenshots diagnostic is simply a small similar Microsoft’s Recall feature that uses AI to way everything you bash connected your machine via changeless screenshots, but it’s much of a manual affair. If you privation to support way of thing similar an lawsuit you’re readying with friends oregon a look to marque for dinner, you tin instrumentality a screenshot and past conversationally hunt for the accusation later. Google says this is simply a Pixel instrumentality exclusive.

Gemini understands your screen

Google took a cue from Apple, too, giving Gemini the quality to respond to you based connected what’s connected your telephone surface erstwhile you inquire it. The institution says that aft summoning Gemini, you tin pat “Ask astir this screen” oregon “Ask astir this video” to nonstop the exemplary to what you’re looking astatine for contextual replies. Google says this means Gemini tin bash things similar adhd a database of restaurants from a YouTube question video to Google Maps.

A faster, amended Gemini assistant

Gemini volition beryllium faster arsenic a dependable assistant, Google says, acknowledgment to caller models specified arsenic Gemini 1.5 Flash. The institution says this exemplary besides offers higher-quality responses and won’t get things incorrect rather arsenic often arsenic erstwhile versions of the assistant. Google is besides adding much extensions to Gemini, truthful it volition beryllium capable to propulsion accusation from — oregon bash things successful — apps similar Keep, Tasks, Utilities, and Google Calendar.

Chat with Gemini Live

Google is rolling retired its ain mentation of ChatGPT’s dependable chat, called Gemini Live. The institution says the diagnostic enables earthy conversation, truthful you tin interrupt Gemini mid-sentence oregon intermission a speech and prime it up later. Gemini Live volition enactment adjacent if your surface is locked, Google says. It’s lone disposable for Gemini Advanced subscribers, though.

Reimagining your photos

Google is adding a caller Magic Editor enactment to “reimagine” a photograph by typing retired what you privation to spot and past letting the app alteration parts of the image. So, if you wanted to, you could wholly regenerate the entity oregon different aspects of a inheritance by describing thing other entirely. Who needs a cleanable time erstwhile you tin marque one, I guess?

Add Me

Along the aforesaid “what is simply a photo?” lines arsenic the caller Magic Editor feature, the Pixel 9 camera’s “Add Me” enactment lets you easy instrumentality radical photos without bothering strangers to bash it for you. Just instrumentality a representation of your friends, past manus your telephone disconnected and measurement into the aforesaid spot they were in, and the camera volition stitch the 2 images unneurotic afterward.

Make pictures utilizing Pixel Studio

A caller Pixel Studio app lets you make illustrations utilizing substance prompts. You’ll request to beryllium connected to the net for this diagnostic — it doesn’t enactment on-device similar the others.

Share pictures with Circle to Search

Google is adding what it says is an AI-powered quality to stock parts of an representation oregon of your surface erstwhile you usage Circle to Search. After you’ve circled the information you want, you tin pat a caller stock fastener to nonstop it via substance — it’s fundamentally cropping portion of an representation to stock but without each the accustomed rigmarole of editing an image.

AI upwind summaries

Google’s caller Pixel Weather app volition connection AI-generated upwind reports.

Call notes

Google volition usage AI to make summaries of telephone calls aft you bent up. Google says this is adjuvant for pulling retired details from a call, citing the illustration of being referred to a caller barber store and forgetting to constitute down the telephone number. The institution says the calls and summaries are “never sent to the cloud,” and that it notifies everybody connected a telephone earlier it transcribes and summarizes it.