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On October 28, 2026, the Google Developers Blog announced that LiteRT in Google Play services has received its biggest upgrade yet: GPU inference based on ML Drift is about 1.4 times faster than the old GPU delegate and is provided through the new CompiledModel API. After switching to this runtime, app size shrinks by about 8 MB, because the runtime is distributed uniformly with Play services and is no longer packaged into the APK. Currently, more than 100,000 Android apps already bundle LiteRT or TensorFlow Lite. The solution supports Android 7 and above, Wear OS 4+, and Android Automotive OS (Android 11+), while NPU support is still under development.
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LiteRT in Google Play services receives its biggest upgrade: GPU inference based on ML Drift is about 1.4x faster than the old GPU delegate and is provided through the new CompiledModel API. After switching to this runtime, app size shrinks by about 8 MB, because the runtime is distributed uniformly with Play services and is no longer packaged into the APK; currently more than 100,000 Android apps already bundle LiteRT or TensorFlow Lite. This solution supports Android 7 and above, Wear OS 4+, and Android Automotive OS (Android 11+); NPU support is still in development.