When Google introduced Night Sight on the Pixel 3, it was a revelation. It was as if someone had literally turned on the lights in your low-light photos. Previously impossible shots became possible – no tripod or deer-in-the-headlights flash needed. When the Pixel 8 Pro launched this fall, Google announced a feature called Video Boost with Night Sight, which would arrive in a future software update. It uses AI to process your videos – bringing out more detail and enhancing color, which is especially helpful for low-light clips. There’s just one catch: this processing takes place in the cloud on Google’s servers, not on your phone. As promised, Video Boost started arriving on devices a couple of weeks ago with December’s Pixel update. But it’s not quite the watershed moment that the original Night Sight was. That speaks both to how impressive Night Sight was when it debuted, as well as the particular challenges that video presents to a smartphone camera system. Video Boost is a glimpse of the future – it’s just a future where the AI on your phone works hand-in-hand with the AI in the cloud.