Gemma 4 on the Pixel 10: chat, see, and tweak settings at 30,000 feet, no signal needed
At Google I/O India, the Tensor and Pixel teams showed Gemma 4's lightweight build running directly on the phone's TPU — the chip blocks dedicated to AI — with data staying on the device. Developers can apply for the Tensor SDK to compile and run their own models on Pixel.
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No Wi-Fi at 40,000 feet: does your AI still work?
In July 2026, Google teamed up with the Pixel team at Google I/O India for a joint demo: AI running on the Pixel 10's own silicon. That chip is called Google Tensor, and inside it sits a TPU built specifically for AI workloads.
The pitch: you're on a plane, three miles up, no internet — and you can still have a real conversation. They also walked through the models, showed demo videos, and introduced the tools developers can start using today.
Ask a question, snap a photo, or record a voice memo, and your phone ships the request to the cloud. No signal, no answer. And even with a connection, your voice and images leave the device.
As much as possible now runs on the phone's TPU. The model and its compute stay local, and your data never leaves the device.
What Was Announced
The official demos keep circling back to four capabilities:
All four share the same TPU, lean toward offline, and keep data on the phone. The fine print lists supported devices: Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, 10 Pro Fold.
How Gemma 4 Lite Gets on the TPU
The model is called Gemma 4 E2B for TPU. It's pre-compiled for the Pixel TPU, positioned as lightweight, and designed to run natively on the phone. Pre-built packages are available through the LiteRT community on Hugging Face, with Google_Tensor_G5 in the filename.
If you're curious about Gemma 4 itself — how it was trained, what the parameter count means, and what "thinking" looks like — we've got a detailed breakdown of the technical report:
The 8 Official Demos, Grouped by Capability
Google posted 8 demo videos. Here's how they break down:
1. Offline Skills: Travel, Recipes, Smart Home
The demo shows travel planning, recipe recommendations, and home automation — all without a connection. The product name is Agent Skills.
2. Control Your Phone: Change System Settings by Speaking or Typing
Mobile Actions is powered by Functional Gemma (around 270M parameters, specifically trained for function calling). It runs on the TPU — you command Wi-Fi, maps, and similar features with your voice or text, and the model outputs actions the phone can execute directly.
3. Chat, See, and Listen — All Offline
Google also split out demos for chat, camera questions, on-device transcription, and a TPU-powered conversation:
4. Industry Demos: Retail Store and Auto Garage
The last two videos drop the same offline capability into real-world settings:
How Developers Get Models Onto a Pixel
The entry point is the Tensor SDK, currently in beta with an application process. The product page lays out three steps:
- Apply for the Tensor SDK beta: fill out the form on the Tensor SDK page. Before commercial distribution, go through the licensing and distribution terms.
- Grab a ready-made model, or compile your own: find classic models on Model Garden; small language models live in the Google Tensor collection on Hugging Face.
- Copy the official samples: check out sample_app_tpu on GitHub, and the Tensor SDK Codelab.
- Start with the Gallery app: install LiteRT AI Edge Gallery from the Play Store instead of building a full app first. Supported hardware is the Pixel 10 family.
Gemma 4, Squeezed Into the Pixel 10's Chip: Chat, See, and Tweak Settings Without a Signal
Google got Gemma 4's lightweight build running on the Pixel 10's dedicated AI chip (the TPU). One illustrated page: what it can do, and how you can try it.
↓ One page to read · There's an animated diagram
Ask your phone a question and it usually sends the request to the cloud, waits for an answer, and falls over without a connection. Photos and recordings get sent off too. Google just moved that whole loop onto the phone's own silicon.
No signal, no answer
Chat, see, tweak settings — all offline
Four kinds of work all run on the phone's TPU: casual chat, pointing the camera at something, turning a lecture into text, and using your voice to flip on Wi-Fi or open Maps — no internet, no data leaving the phone. All 8 demo videos were produced by Google; there's no third-party testing yet.
Whether you're just asking something or telling the phone to flip a switch, the whole loop now ends right on the device.
Google opened up an application process for the Tensor SDK, and it's still in closed beta.
✔ Official sample code and tutorials get you up and running
✘ Only the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and 10 Pro Fold are supported; older Pixels are out
E2B
- × Pixel 10 / 10 Pro / 10 Pro XL / 10 Pro Fold only
- × Tensor SDK still requires a beta invite