Leica said generative AI features should be distinguished from its traditional cameras, while there is room to use them in licensed brands such as Xiaomi’s 17T series. The comments were made at a roundtable held after the launch of the Xiaomi 17T Pro, which highlights Leica-tuned cameras and Google’s text-to-video tool Gemini Omni. Leica also underscored photo authenticity tools, including digital signatures and metadata.

Google’s new AI model Gemini 3.5 Flash is positioned as a practical tool that supports coding, long-form reasoning, multimodal understanding and parallel task handling. The evaluation used five prompts, including building a simulator from a space debris report, designing a travel itinerary, guiding a craft task, creating a 25-minute cleaning plan and running a humorous parallel-reasoning investigation. The test highlighted context retention and switching between task types, while also raising questions about user data access needs.