Pixel phones put generative AI in the camera. #Vergecast
The Vergeยท2025-08-24 14:00
They put AI in the camera is the short version. This is only on the Pro in the Pro XL and it's only in this feature called ProRes zoom which is kind of digital zoom. It's when you get past 30x all the way up to 100.So typically like garbage territory of like you're not getting a good photo from that. There's just not enough information for any kind of processing to do anything with it. So Google was like, "What if we put generative AI in here and had it try to figure out what you're taking a picture of?" So ...