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8 updates on Pixel.
Google lists first Gemini Nano 4 phones, requires Nano 3 for Gemini Intelligence
ML Kit GenAI documentation now names nano-v4 devices and sets Nano v3 or greater, plus 12 GB of RAM, as the requirement for Gemini Intelligence.
Pixel Watch 5 adds offline Gemini commands and faster on-device smart replies
Offline voice commands on the Pixel Watch 5 run on an on-device model, and a Gemini Nano upgrade makes smart replies 50 percent faster.
Pixel 11 series: Tensor G6 adds 50 percent more TPU compute
Google says Tensor G6 with the latest Gemini Nano model processes on-device AI tasks up to 3.5 times faster while using up to 3.5 times less energy.
ClawMobile tries system commands before screen taps and finishes all six test tasks
An agent runtime that runs on the phone itself routes tasks to ADB commands before UI taps, and the authors report 100 percent completion on six tasks.
lm-Meter times on-device inference and finds prefill, not decode, is the bottleneck
A profiler that runs inside the phone measures each inference phase and reports prefill slowing 158 times as models grow, against 10 times for decode.
BUPT proposes one 9.2B model in the OS that all apps call through adapters
A BUPT team proposes that the phone OS ship one 9.2B multimodal model all apps call through small adapters, and matched app models on 85% of 50 datasets.
Gemini Nano ships on the Pixel 8 Pro and Android gets AICore
Google put Gemini Nano on the Pixel 8 Pro for Recorder summaries and Gboard Smart Reply, and introduced AICore as the Android service behind it.
MobileBERT runs in 62 ms on a Pixel 4 with 25.3M parameters
Carnegie Mellon and Google Brain distilled BERT into a 25.3M-parameter model that answers in 62 ms on a Pixel 4 and scores 77.7 on GLUE.