Pixie never was, but is Screenshots?
‘Pixie’ was a canceled Pixel assistant that became Pixel Screenshots
This report comes from a combination of The Informational and 9to5Google.
“…after a leadership review, employees working on the product were told Pichai had ordered a change of direction to ensure the new product didn’t compete with the Gemini assistant, which operates across all of Google’s Android devices, according to a person with direct knowledge of the instructions.”
From a consistency standpoint, this makes sense. Google’s history is stained with a lot of half-cooked up duplicates of messaging platforms and this would’ve been another one of those. I’m glad they went with the larger scale Gemini plan instead. I do hope that Google provides a way to make Gemini more contextual with what’s on-device.