Pixel 9 AI image generation is a huge problem that Google needs to fix

There's no question the Pixel 9 phones are Google's best possible AI hardware right now. Google couldn't wait to launch the Pixel 9 models, even if that meant running Android 14 out of the box instead of the newest Android 15 release. Google had to prove that its Gemini AI features are ready for mass consumption right now. By launching now, Google got ahead of OpenAI's ChatGPT voice mode upgrade and the debut of Apple Intelligence on the iPhone 16.

The current smartphone landscape, combined with recent advancements in AI...