Alongside the November 2025 Feature Drop, Google announced Private AI Compute to make Magic Cue on the Pixel 10 more powerful while remaining secure.
Private AI Compute is Google’s new “AI processing platform” that combines the power of cloud models with on-device processing’s privacy.
It specifically is a “secure, fortified space for processing” sensitive user data that Google cannot access. This system takes advantage of Google’s end-to-end AI stack including CPUs and Cloud TPUs. Your phone is connected to the “hardware-secured sealed cloud environment” via encryption and remote attestation.
This is a joint effort from Google’s Platform and Devices (the hardware team), DeepMind, and Cloud divisions. In general, Google says AI that “can anticipate your needs with tailored suggestions or handle tasks for you at just the right moment” needs “advanced reasoning and computational power that at times goes beyond what’s possible with on-device processing.”
Google published a more detailed technical brief here. This is similar in concept to Apple Intelligence’s Private Cloud Compute.
Magic Cue is now using Private AI Compute for “more timely suggestions” thanks to Gemini models in the cloud, though on-device Gemini Nano is still leveraged.
Magic Cue will continue to appear when you open a Google Messages conversation, on Phone by Google’s calling screen, the Pixel Weather homepage when you have an upcoming event, and in the Gboard suggestions row.
Additionally, Pixel Recorder is using Private AI Compute for transcription summaries in more languages. Pixel users will be able to see when Private AI Compute is called. To access, enable Developer options and go to Settings app > Security & Privacy > More security & privacy > Android System Intelligence > Network Usage log > Log network activity.
Google teases how Private AI Compute “opens up a new set of possibilities for helpful AI experiences now that we can use both on-device and advanced cloud models for the most sensitive use cases.”
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