Google’s Gemini Nano AI is coming to the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra

Your favorite AI chatbot is based on a large language model (LLM) that is far too large to run on your smartphone. However, that doesn’t mean your phone can’t run LLM at all. In fact, there are versions of popular LLMs that have been slimmed down to run locally on mobile devices, with the downside of being more limited in complexity. Gemini Nano, for example, is the mobile-optimized version of Google Gemini LLM and can be found on a handful of phones from Google, Samsung, and Xiaomi. Now Gemini Nano is coming to Motorola phones.

When I shared the news last week that Gemini Nano was coming to the Xiaomi 14T, one of my followers contacted me on After some back and forth, I was able to confirm that Gemini Nano was indeed coming to his Motorola phone, the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra market is coming.

His Motorola Edge 50 Ultra received an update to the AICore app from Google Play that brought it to version 0.release.qc8635.670632439. AICore is the system app responsible for downloading the Gemini Nano model and providing an API that apps can call to use it. After downloading the AICore update, he opened the Google Messages app and tapped the “Magic Compose” button, which prompted AICore to download the roughly 1.25GB Gemini Nano model. The “About” screen for Magic Compose then confirmed that the feature was running on the device.

In case you don’t know, Magic Compose is a feature in the Google Messages app that suggests canned replies that you can send to your contacts. It analyzes the last 20 messages in a conversation to generate suggested answers. To protect your privacy, these messages are analyzed on the device using Gemini Nano.

As far as we know, apart from Magic Compose, there are no other functions on the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra that are based on Gemini Nano – at least not yet. Google has promised developers that it will release an API that will allow them to use Gemini Nano in their apps, but this API is still in private preview. Companies like Adobe plan to use Gemini Nano to provide document summaries on the device, but have not yet released this feature.

In any case, with the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra, there are now a total of 14 premium Android phones that support the Gemini Nano AI model. The Google Pixel 8 series, Samsung Galaxy S24 series, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Xiaomi 14T Pro are confirmed to support Gemini Nano 1.0, while the entire Google Pixel 9 series the newer Gemini Nano supports with multimodality model.

It’s unclear whether the regular Xiaomi 14T will actually get Gemini Nano support or just the Pro model, but what’s clear is that Google is serious about bringing its on-device LLM to more devices. Hopefully it follows suit and introduces more features that actually make use of it so that the ~1.25GB download doesn’t feel like a waste of space.