Gemini Nano now powers on-device generative AI features for Pixel 8 Pro
Technically auto complete can be considered Gen AI, but it obviously lacks the creativity that we all associate with Gen AI today. You don’t need a model that is generally useful to do auto complete.
The point is it didn’t take a generally useful Gen AI model to do auto complete before but Google is now shipping features (beyond auto complete) that use such a model. Gen AI on device is novel.