[SketchySeaBeast]

Which really feels discordant with the claim that all this stuff is only enabled by the new AI-specialized hardware. I say this as someone who owns a Pixel 8 Pro - love the phone, but am utterly disillusioned with these AI claims.

[jsheard]

Yeah, a lot of it is ultimately offloaded to the cloud and the hardware is effectively just a license key that grants you access to those API endpoints. Googles Magic Eraser was originally a cloud service, but they eventually got it working on-device with the Pixel 8 series, but they simultaneously launched Magic Editor which the Pixel 8 still defers to the cloud.