OnePlus backtracks on Gemini 1.0 Ultra announcement, says it was a mistake

Last week at the Google Cloud Next event, Google and OnePlus announced a collaboration that would see OnePlus devices gain support for some Gemini-powered AI features. OnePlus later released a press statement saying the company was in line to bring Google’s most advanced AI model yet, Gemini 1.0 Ultra, to OnePlus devices later this year.

This stirred up some conversations in the Pixel community, with some users concerned that Google is giving out its best AI model to another company while its own Pixel 8 devices run on the weaker version of their AI models. But in a turn of events, OnePlus has just backtracked on their initial announcement, saying that they “mistakenly” mentioned Gemini 1.0 Ultra in their press release instead of Gemini Models.

Pete Lau has also edited his community post that announced Gemini 1.0 Ultra was coming to OnePlus phones, and now it only mentions Gemini 1.0 and Gemini 1.5 without any other specifics. In a statement to the Financial Express, OnePlus says:

We would like to issue a correction regarding our recent press release about the collaboration between Google and OnePlus. The press release mistakenly mentioned the debut of the “Gemini Ultra Large Model” on smartphones. The correct information is that Google and OnePlus have teamed up to introduce the “Gemini Models” on smartphones, which promise to bring revolutionary AI experiences to mobile devices.

Interestingly, this isn’t he first time the company is involved in such a controversy this year alone. OnePlus had to apologize for falsely advertising UFS 4.0 storage in the 12R while in reality it uses UFS 3.1. OnePlus also falsely advertised e-SIM support for the OnePlus 12 in India and then ‘quietly’ changed it to NO e-SIM support a while later.

This latest marketing mistake doesn’t help its course, but it also doesn’t change the fact that OnePlus makes some of the most amazing smartphones.