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TL;DR
- Google has reportedly been engaged on a brand new AI-powered help instrument for Pixel units since 2023.
- The system would monitor your display and actions in apps, and supply “private predictive ideas.”
- First referred to as Pixie, after which Pixel Sense, a brand new leak suggests Google has renamed the instrument to Magic Cue.
Who doesn’t love thriller? Within the smartphone world, upcoming high-profile units generally leak a lot that it looks like there’s nothing left to learn about them. Whereas that may be actually satisfying, it’s additionally a whole lot of enjoyable to observe a extra nebulous rumor evolve over time, elevating query after query because the story behind it slowly unfolds. We’re nonetheless not fairly to the underside of this one but, however this week a brand new leak provides a curious chapter to the story of Pixie and Pixel Sense.
In case you haven’t been following this one, we first heard about Pixie again in late 2023, described as a brand new on-device AI-powered assistant for Pixel {hardware}. It didn’t materialize for the Pixel 9 collection, however then simply this March we reported on Google’s curiosity in retooling the service as Pixel Sense and introducing it with Pixel 10 telephones. Additional evaluation instructed this is able to be much less just like the interactive voice assistants we now have with the Google Assistant and now Gemini, and extra like an automation instrument — even spinning off into Pixel Screenshots.
Apparently Google wasn’t performed with reinventing this mission but, as a result of over on Telegram, Mystic Leaks shares a brief video recording with the declare that Pixel Sense has discovered a brand new title within the type of Magic Cue (by way of 9to5Google).
As you may see in these screengrabs from the video, Magic Cue does certainly appear to be taking the shape that we have been starting to anticipate from Pixel Sense, utilizing AI to assemble details about what you’re doing in apps, and predictively making an attempt to assist get stuff performed. If the thought of AI studying your chats simply appears like a privateness trade-off you can do with out, it’s reassuring to see that customers should positively choose in to Magic Cue, as this setup display doesn’t depict the service as being on by default.
The supply right here claims that Magic Cue is on monitor for introduction alongside the Pixel 10, and contemplating the false begin with the Pixel 9, we actually hope that’s lastly true.
