MediaTek chips are getting Gemini Nano with multimodality

It took smartphone chips a while to catch up with demands for powerful AI. The latest flock of chips coming out has a particular focus on on-device AI. Right now, Google’s Gemini Nano is the de facto mobile AI model powering on-device AI, and MediaTek chips are now gaining compatibility.

In case you don’t know, Gemini Nano is the smallest of the Gemini models, and it’s designed to fit on smartphones. This way, these phones could perform AI tasks without needing to contact servers via the Internet. It’s able to perform tasks like text generation, audio processing, and more. It’s gotten better over time, and now it’s a multi-modal model. This means that it can understand more than one type of media.

MediaTek chips are getting Gemini Nano

This wasn’t all that unexpected. MediaTek has been working with Google for several months to bring its models over. We only know that it’s coming to MediaTek’s most powerful chips. This makes sense, as AI is resource-intensive.

So, for the time being, Gemini Nano is coming to the upcoming MediaTek Dimensity 9400. This is the company’s 2024 flagship chip, so it will be able to handle the AI processing. The phones running this chip haven’t launched yet, but we may still see MediaTek-powered phones with Gemini Nano sooner, as the model is expected to also land on devices running the MediaTek 9300.

MediaTek was working with Google to bring Gemini to both the 9300 and 9400 series chips. So, devices like the Xiaomi 14T Pro and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 series will gain this model.

We just have no idea when this will happen. Also, when Gemini Nano does make it to the MediaTek chips, it will be up to the device OEMs to bring the AI features that will use the model. Hopefully, we will see some amazing AI features from future MediaTek-powered devices.