Google Gemini is the name given to both chatbot (formerly Google Bard) as a renewed Android assistant, with one thing in common: both use Google AI. This name comes from Google’s language models which exist in three versions: “Nano” to run locally, “Pro” which is already in the chatbot and “Ultra”, for which you have to pay a subscription.
We learned all this from relevant search engine ads. However, so far, Gemini Nano only works on Google’s latest mobile, with an integrated Tensor processor. This will no longer be the case in the future, because MediaTek announced at MWC 2024 that its Dimensity 8300 and Dimensity 9300 processors will work with Google AI in its local version.
MediaTek, hand in hand with Google to bring the On-device AI to Dimensions
Gemini Nano is the smaller version of Google’s AI. It’s less capable than its older brothers “Pro” and “Ultra”, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less useful. In fact, it is the only model of the three that can run locally on deviceswithout the need for servers or data exchange.
This provides a greater privacy to the user, who will also be able to benefit from it in any situation, even those where they do not have an Internet connection. However, to use it we must have a Pixel 8 Pro with Google’s Tensor G3 chip.
A few weeks later, Gemini Nano is no longer an exclusive of chips manufactured by Samsung (the Tensor G3 is also an exclusive) for take the plunge with MediaTekwhich since the MWC in Barcelona revealed its partnership with Google.
We take a break to return to the end of last year, when we discovered the Dimensity 9300 and 8300. In this presentation, the Chinese manufacturer focused on generative AI technologies, and justified itself with its own platform called NeuroPilot. What we didn’t expect was – coming back to the present – a Google-MediaTek alliance to bring the Gemini Nano model to Dimensity.
According to the manufacturer, they worked together so that Nano could run “effectively and efficiently” on the aforementioned processors. Google itself collaborated on the NeuroPilot toolkit, managing to adapt its LLM. What was the result ? Well, they’re going to launch a soon APK by Gemini which runs on the Dimensity 9300 and 8300, so mobile developers and manufacturers can deploy Nano-based applications.
The local AI continues to add new alternatives after learning about MagicLM, Honor’s proposal for the software of its Android phones, in addition to the one we are dealing with from MediaTek. At the moment, this announcement has no convenient use for users who own a smartphone equipped with these chips, but it is undoubtedly a medium-term strategy which will provide us with powerful tools based on generative artificial intelligence.
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