Pixel Studio, revealed at Made by Google 2024, is likely one of the many new AI options coming to the newly introduced Google telephones, together with the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional XL, and Pixel 9 Professional Fold.
The search engine big boasts that the Pixel Studio is customers’ new “creative assistant.” Leveraging capabilities similar to text-to-image, you possibly can have lots of enjoyable with Pixel Studio creating funky AI-generated photographs. At a latest press occasion, I received to see the Pixel Studio in motion because it competes with the likes of OpenAI’s DALLE-3 and Midjourney.
This funky cat was created on Pixel Studio
With the immediate, “A cat wearing flat black pixel sunglasses in New York City,” I watched the next AI-generated feline seem on the Pixel 9 Professional Fold:
Take a look at this AI-generated kitten on the Pixel 9 Professional Fold.
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I used to be most stunned by the low latency. The AI-generated kitty popped up in lower than two seconds.
So what’s underpinning the Pixel Studio’s text-to-image capabilities? An AI mannequin known as Imagen 3, a DALLE-3 and Midjourney competitor.
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Imagen 3, born out of the search engine big’s DeepMind AI lab, is able to understanding natural-language prompts. It may possibly ship top quality photographs in all kinds of types, from photorealistic cityscapes to intricately textured oil work.
Imagen 3 is Google’s latest, most succesful mannequin — and it runs on the cloud. As soon as it “lands” in your telephone, you possibly can edit and refine the picture, which faucets into the on-device AI (the Google Tensor G4 chip within the case of the Pixel 9 Professional Fold). So in different phrases, Pixel Studio combines each cloud and native processing.
I watched the Google rep revise his unique immediate, which remodeled the cool cat right into a sign-holding kitty. The message mentioned, “Oh yeah!” (This half continues to be occurring within the cloud.)
Now, it is holding an indication.
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You can too alter the fashion of the picture with any one of many recommended visible appears, together with sketch, classic, anime, 3D creation, cinematic, online game, cyberpunk, and extra. Here is what the anime fashion appears like:
The “anime” model of the unique kitty.
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Subsequent, you possibly can fireplace up the in-app modifying suite and make modifications to your liking. That is the place the on-device processing kicks in. You possibly can, for instance, isolate an undesirable object and take away it. You can too rework your AI-generated creation right into a sticker, permitting you to share it with your pals.
Add some textual content and you have a meme
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You possibly can entry Pixel Studio through the house display.
Arrow pointing to the brand new Pixel Studio app
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The Pixel Studio shall be out there throughout the Pixel 9 smartphone household, beginning with the $799 entry-level Pixel 9. It is out there for pre-order at present.
