Google's December Pixel Feature Drop was a huge one, bringing fun new functionality to older Pixels while delivering on several features promised for the Pixel 8 series. The Pixel 8 Pro, in particular, got its fully on-device foundational AI model, and it turned out that was none other than Gemini Nano, the lightweight version of Google's multimodal AI platform meant to compete with GPT-4. Gemini Nano will be used to power features like an enhanced Smart Reply in Gboard and summaries for Google Recorder. That last one has started rolling out today, and it's a lot more finicky than you might have thought.
