Google says running AI models on phones is a huge RAM hog
Briefly

The Pixel 8 Pro, having 12GB of RAM, was a perfect place for us to put [Gemini Nano]...When we looked at the Pixel 8...it wasn't as easy of a call to just say, 'all right, we're going to enable it on Pixel 8 as well.'
Google doesn't want to degrade the experience on the smaller Pixel 8, which only has 8GB of RAM.
Read at Ars Technica
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