When Google releases the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro next year, it wants to introduce you to someone: Pixie. That's the name Google has reportedly chosen for its next generation digital assistant, which it intends to keep exclusive to the Pixel.
Pixie will be powered by Gemini Nano, the AI model Google made for mobile devices. Nano is already in the Pixel 8 Pro to power its Summarise In Recorder and Smart Reply features, and Google said that the plan was to use Gemini to enhance what the Google Assistant with Bard could do in future devices. That still appears to be the plan, but Google appears to be taking a different road for its own devices compared to Android more widely.
