All Android app devs can now experimentally access Gemini Nano on Pixel 9

Since launch, access to Gemini Nano has been limited to Google and OEM apps, but broader experimental availability for Android app developers is now here.

Besides first-party apps, Google initially gave a “limited set of partners” access to the on-device model. Those partner applications are not yet here.

Google is now “opening up access to experiment with Gemini Nano to all Android developers with the AI Edge SDK via AICore” on the Pixel 9 series. 

Notably, this “experimental access is for development purposes” and not stable “production usage.” App developers will specifically be able to “experiment with text-to-text prompts,” while “support for more devices and modalities” is coming in the future.

The process involves joining the aicore-experimental Google group to gain access to “Android AICore (Beta)” via the Play Store.

Developers are getting access to “Nano 2” (3.25B parameters), which is part of the Gemini 1.0 series. In the chart below, Google compares it to Nano 1 (1.8B).

Specific functionality available includes: