We realized final week that Google has pushed its Made by Google occasion ahead to August 13, just a few months earlier than its standard date. Why? Hypothesis ranges from Google timing its annual occasion to coincide with the subsequent Android launch, to getting a bounce on vacation gross sales, to easily asserting its subsequent technology of units earlier than Apple does.
Whereas we could by no means know the precise motive, we now know not less than one factor that Google is worked up to disclose. In accordance with AndroidAuthority, the corporate plans to launch new AI options underneath the “Google AI” model for its Pixel 9 sequence.
A leaked screenshot exhibits that some current options like Circle to Search and Gemini can be part of Google AI. A number of new AI options are additionally on the way in which, although.
First up is one thing referred to as “Add Me,” which Google says ensures everybody makes it into a bunch photograph. This might be just like the prevailing Google Photographs function Finest Take that mixes a number of photos into one shot. Maybe you can take an image, change photographers, after which merge the pictures to incorporate everybody.
Subsequent, there’s one thing referred to as “Pixel Screenshots,” which Google says permits you to “discover the information you want out of your screenshots.” While you activate this function (it is opt-in), it can summarize screenshots and help you ask questions to seek out them later. While you take new screenshots, the AI function provides metadata like hyperlinks, app names, and the date and time they had been taken.
The notion of getting your screenshots analyzed and saved would possibly increase an eyebrow for those who’re involved about privateness, however the AI processes all the pieces domestically, 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 out there on the Pixel 9 sequence, Android Authority says. There is no 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 sequence, each the bottom model and the dearer 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 could solely be out there on the most costly Pixel 9 model.
We must always get official phrase on Google AI in a couple of month.
