With Android AICore, you can run generative AI features directly on your Android phone or tablet’s hardware. This system service manages large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) models on your Android device. It keeps these tools fast, completely private, and available even without an internet connection.
How it works
Important:
- This service is available on devices with Android 14 and higher.
- Feature availability varies by device and manufacturer.
- You may occasionally find a temporary increase in storage use. This is normal during background updates. Learn why AICore uses large amounts of storage.
With Android AICore, your device can run Gemini Nano, a highly efficient AI model designed specifically for mobile devices. Unlike traditional AI features that send your data to an external server, these tasks are performed locally with your Android phone or tablet's built-in processor to always keep your data fully private on your device.
In local data processing, AICore provides several key advantages:
- Enhanced privacy: Sensitive information remains on your device. It’s never sent to the cloud or to Google.
- Offline functionality: AI-powered features work even when you have no network connection or are in Airplane mode. This includes text summarization and smart replies.
- Faster and more consistent performance: Local processing removes the lag associated with cloud-based services providing a faster and more reliable experience.
Discover powered features
This service runs in the background and provides intelligence to various apps. Common features include:
- Advanced proofreading: It enhances grammar correction and language understanding as you type.
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): It converts streamed audio and audio files into text transcripts.
- Scam detection: It identifies messages that can be considered spam or scams.
- Smart reply: It provides high-quality, context-aware response suggestions in messaging apps. For example, it works in WhatsApp, Line, and KakaoTalk through Gboard.
- Summarization: It automatically creates concise summaries of recorded audio. For example, it works in the Recorder app.
- Translation: It easily translates text from one language to another.
Protect your privacy
To protect your privacy, AICore is designed to process information locally.
Features like note summarization or smart replies happen entirely on your Android phone or tablet's hardware. For these tasks, your personal data is never sent to the cloud or shared over the internet. This keeps your information strictly under your control.
Troubleshoot issues
Why storage use increases
You may occasionally find that this service uses a larger amount of storage than expected. This occurs when the system is updating to a new version of an AI model in the background.
To make sure features work reliably, your device temporarily keeps both the old and new versions of the model for up to 3 days. This fail-safe allows your phone to instantly revert to an older version if the new update encounters an error, rather than having to download gigabytes of data again.
When the system confirms the update is stable, the extra storage space clears automatically.