Leaked Google Pixel 9 Pro video hints at two genuinely useful Gemini AI skills

More AI tricks on the way

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ThePixel 9launch event thatGooglehas scheduled forTuesday, August 13is fast approaching, and information about these phones continues to leak on a daily basis. Today’s installment is what seems to be a promo video showing off the Pixel 9 Pro’s new AI tricks.

The clip was posted by regular tipster@MysteryLupin(viaAndroid Headlines), and given the backing track and editing style, it looks very much like a reel that Google is going to use as part of its launch event next week.

We get a decent look at the Pixel 9 Pro, and some hints about the newGemini AIfeatures arriving with the phone. In one demo, a Pixel user snaps the contents of their fridge, and then gets Gemini to come up with a dish that can be made using those ingredients.

It’s the sort of multimodal AI magic that was shown off at the Google I/O 2024 event earlier this year, where different forms of input (like images) are used as prompts. As always, be wary of hallucinations, which may ruin your cooking prep.

Add Me to your photos

Pixel 9 Pro pic.twitter.com/htze22yrsgAugust 6, 2024

Another AI-powered feature in this video that we’ve not seen before is called Add Me. The idea is that you take a photo with your friends in it, then you swap places and they take a photo of you – so you’re all able to appear against the same backdrop.

It’s similar to some of the AI photo editing tricks that have already been launched underthe Magic Editor umbrellaon Android, and at the moment it’s not clear if these same features are going to be rolling out to older Pixel handsets and phones made by other manufacturers in due course.

The video also mentions a “pro-level camera” and “super res zoom video”, which appears to be the video equivalent of the existingSuper Res Zoom for photosfeature: using a combination of hardware tricks and machine learning algorithms to boost the zoom capabilities on images (and now, it would seem, video).

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All of this should be made official on Tuesday, when alongside the Pixel 9 Pro we’re expecting to hear about the standard Pixel 9, the Pixel 9 Pro XL, thePixel 9 Pro Fold(replacing theGoogle Pixel Fold), and theGoogle Pixel Watch 3.

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