This is a weird hit piece where the author has all the facts but seems to just not understand them…
The TL;DR (that we knew months ago) is the 8GB of ram in Pixel 8 isn’t enough to run the Gemini Nano LLM on device, the 12GB of ram in the 8 Pro is actually needed.
Again, strange to call this a “fail” when Google is the first and only company to really do this and never claimed it was coming to the 8. This is the bleeding edge, of course it only runs on highest spec hardware.