The topic Google previews Gemini Nano 4 for Android AICore, coming this year is currently the subject of lively discussion — readers and analysts are keeping a close eye on developments.
This is taking place in a dynamic environment: companies’ decisions and competitors’ reactions can quickly change the picture.
In addition to Gemma 4, Google today also detailed Gemini Nano 4 for Android.
Gemma 4 is the “foundation for the next generation of Gemini Nano.” Gemini Nano 4 is currently available in early access via the AICore Developer Preview. Google has previously referred to the models as “nano-v2” and “nano-v3” (which is available on the Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26). There are two versions:
For Android, Google highlights how Gemma 4 is “up to 4x faster than previous versions and uses up to 60% less battery.” It offers “industry-leading performance with multimodal understanding” across text, image, and audio, while natively supporting 140+ languages.
Reasoning: Chain-of-thought commands and conditional statements can now be expected to return higher quality results.
Math: With better math skills, the model can now more accurately answer questions.
Time understanding: The model is now more capable when reasoning about time, making it more accurate for use cases that involve calendars, reminders, and alarms.
Image understanding: Use cases that involve OCR (Optical Character Recognition) – such as chart understanding, visual data extraction, and handwriting recognition – will now return more accurate results.
Gemini Nano 4 will launch on “new flagship Android devices later this year.” Any “code you write today for Gemma 4 will automatically work on Gemini Nano 4-enabled devices.”
You can sign up for the AICore Developer Preview here. Google will be “making several updates throughout the preview period, including support for tool calling, structured output, system prompts, and thinking mode in Prompt API.”