OnePlus 13 is becoming a member of the Gemini Nano membership

OnePlus launched the worldwide model of its newest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 13, to glowing critiques final week. Whereas many, together with myself, praised it as one of many finest Android telephones you should purchase proper now, we acknowledged that it isn’t with out flaws. One which many reviewers introduced up is that almost all of its new AI options require web entry, an issue that OnePlus might clear up with giant language fashions (LLMs) optimized for cell units. OnePlus is now rolling out its first software program replace for the worldwide OnePlus 13 that provides help for Google’s Gemini Nano AI mannequin.

Gemini Nano is the smallest model of Google’s Gemini giant language mannequin. It’s sufficiently small to be run moderately quick on flagship Android telephones with ample quantities of reminiscence and AI accelerators, such because the OnePlus 13. Earlier than at the moment’s software program replace to model CPH2655_15.0.0.402(EX01), although, the OnePlus 13 didn’t help Gemini Nano, because it didn’t have the Android AICore app that’s essential to obtain the mannequin. After putting in the replace, although, my OnePlus 13 now has the Android AICore app. Following a fast replace to the app from the Google Play Retailer, my OnePlus 13 started downloading Google’s Gemini Nano mannequin as soon as I opened the Google Messages app and tapped the Magic Compose button.

Magic Compose is an experimental characteristic of the Google Messages app that makes use of generative AI to offer advised replies primarily based on the context of your dialog. On most Android units, your messages are processed on the cloud by Google’s AI fashions. On units that help Gemini Nano, although, your messages are processed regionally and by no means depart your system. That is true for the OnePlus 13 following at the moment’s software program replace, as evidenced by the message that seems once you faucet the flask icon within the Magic Compose window.

Just like the Xiaomi 14T Professional and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6, the OnePlus 13 solely makes use of Gemini Nano for Magic Compose in Google Messages. In distinction, Gemini Nano powers a broader number of options on supported Pixel telephones, like summaries within the Pixel Recorder app and good replies in Gboard. On the Pixel 9 collection, it powers extra options corresponding to screenshot processing within the Pixel Screenshots app and name summarization within the Google Cellphone app. These final two are made potential due to the upgraded multimodal capabilities within the Gemini Nano mannequin out there on the Pixel 9 collection.

Qualcomm stated its Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset will help Google’s multimodal Gemini Nano mannequin, which implies the OnePlus 13 ought to have the identical mannequin because the Pixel 9. Provided that the AICore app takes up ~3.8GB on my OnePlus 13 versus ~1.3GB on my Galaxy Z Fold 6, evidently the OnePlus 13 does certainly have the newer multimodal model. Nonetheless, there aren’t any new options that put it to use for the time being. That might change within the close to future as soon as the AI Edge SDK opens up for extra builders, because it permits Android apps to make the most of the multimodal Gemini Nano mannequin for their very own options. After I tried operating Google’s pattern Gemini Nano app, although, it didn’t work on my OnePlus 13, which might be as a result of it doesn’t have entry to the model of the AICore app that has the experimental APIs.

Right here’s the complete changelog for at the moment’s OnePlus 13 replace, in case you’re :

Communication & interconnection

• Provides a Contact to share characteristic that helps iOS units. You possibly can share images and recordsdata with a contact.
• Optimizes IPv6 connectivity over Wi-Fi.
• Improves the steadiness and expands the compatibility of Bluetooth connections.
• Improves community stability and expertise.

Digital camera

• Provides numerous kinds and personalization to Watermark, together with Hasselblad, Grasp’s signature, Movie, Basic digital camera, and extra.
• Improves the readability of previews and images in Portrait and Picture modes.
• Improves the readability of movies shot in 4K at 60 fps.
• Improves the colour efficiency of images taken with the primary digital camera and telephoto lens in Picture mode.
• Fixes a problem the place images may be too vivid when taken with the rear digital camera in Picture mode.
• Improves the tone and coloration accuracy of images taken with the rear digital camera in Picture mode.

Audio

System

• Provides charging standing to Stay Alerts for a greater person expertise.
• Improves system stability and efficiency.
• Integrates the December 2024 Android safety patch to boost system safety.

Apps

• Provides Al options to Google Messages.
• Now you can add the 1 × 2 Climate widget to the Dwelling display screen.
• Improves the appear and feel of the step tracker widget.
• Improves the appear and feel of the “Storage cleaner” widget.

Finally, it’s good to see extra firms embrace on-device AI fashions like Gemini Nano even when they’re a bit restricted for the time being. We’ve already seen some revolutionary options born from its inclusion, however they’ve all come from Google for the time being. As an increasing number of flagship units from different Android manufacturers acquire entry to the mannequin, hopefully extra builders discover intelligent methods to utilize it.