Alongside the announcements of the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and the Pixel 9 Fold, Google has also opened the wraps on their new AI image generation app, Pixel Studio. This new app uses Google’s Imagen 3 AI model to generate images from the text prompts that you provide.
If you have tried to use any of the available AI image generators in existence, you most likely found that you had to pay for it, but if you own any of the Google Pixel 9 devices, Pixel Studio is complimentary – completely free of charge. It is just another one of the reasons to get a Pixel 9.
Because Pixel Studio is an on-device image generator and so requires no Internet connection, it has the advantage of being able to run faster and work regardless of network situations. The app is coming just a few weeks after Apple announced its own AI image generator named Image Playground. Apple’s image generator is also an on-device model.
Is Pixel Studio going to be available to older Pixel devices and other Android smartphones made by other brands? We do not know that for now. Older Pixel devices may not have the processing capabilities required to make the app function. And Google might want to keep some sort of exclusivity and so exclude other Android devices. Or they could bundle it with Google One subscriptions, making it another incentive to get more people to sign up for that paid service.
Google Pixel Studio will not only generate images using AI diffusion machine learning technology, but it will also allow you edit the generated images, and also let you drag and drop the images directly into a chat or email. Nifty. We all love to share; don’t we?
