Google’s Pixel 9 launch event scheduled for Tuesday, August 13 is quickly approaching, and information about these phones continues to leak out on a daily basis. Today’s installment is what appears to be a promotional video showing off the Pixel 9 Pro’s new AI tricks.
The clip was posted by regular tipster @MysteryLupin (via Android Headlines), and given the background track and editing style, it looks a lot like a reel that Google is going to use as part of its launch event next week.
We get a look at the Pixel 9 Pro and get a few hints at Gemini’s new AI features coming to the phone. In one demo, a Pixel user takes a photo of the contents of their fridge and then asks Gemini to create a dish that can be made with those ingredients.
It's the kind of multimodal AI magic that was on display at the Google I/O 2024 event earlier this year, where different forms of input (like images) are used as prompts. As always, beware of hallucinations, which can ruin your cooking prep.
Add me to your photos
Another AI-powered feature shown in this video that we haven't seen before is called Add Me. The idea is that you take a photo with your friends, then swap places and they take a photo of you, so you can all appear in the same background.
It's similar to some of the AI photo editing tricks that have already been released under the Magic Editor umbrella on Android, and it's unclear at this time whether these same features will roll out to older Pixel phones and phones made by other manufacturers in due course.
The video also mentions a “pro-grade camera” and “Super Res Zoom video,” which appears to be the video equivalent of the existing Super Res Zoom feature for photos: It uses a combination of hardware tricks and machine learning algorithms to increase zoom capabilities in images (and now, it seems, videos).
All of this should become official on Tuesday, when alongside the Pixel 9 Pro we expect to hear about the standard Pixel 9, the Pixel 9 Pro XL, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold (which replaces the Google Pixel Fold), and the Google Pixel Watch 3.
