Since launch, access to Gemini Nano has been limited to Google and OEM apps, but broader experimental availability for Android app developers is now here.
Expanded Access to Gemini Nano
Besides first-party apps, Google initially gave a “limited set of partners” access to the on-device model. Those partner applications are not yet here. Google is now “opening up access to experiment with Gemini Nano to all Android developers with the AI Edge SDK via AICore” on the Pixel 9 series. Notably, this “experimental access is for development purposes” and not stable “production usage.”
Future Enhancements
App developers will specifically be able to “experiment with text-to-text prompts,” while “support for more devices and modalities” is coming in the future. The process involves joining the aicore-experimental Google group to gain access to “Android AICore (Beta)” via the Play Store.
Model Specifications
Developers are getting access to a Gemini 1.0 Nano model with 3.25B parameters, which is referred to as “Nano 2” in the academic paper and chart below (versus 1.8B “Nano 1”): Compared to its predecessor, the model being made available to developers today (referred to in the academic paper as “Nano 2”) delivers a substantial improvement in quality. At nearly twice the size of the predecessor (“Nano 1”), it excels in both academic benchmarks and real-world applications, offering capabilities that rival much larger models.
Available Functionality
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