Alphabet’s Google on Thursday released a smartphone app for its artificial intelligence chatbot on Apple’s App Store, introducing the latest generation of its voice assistant to the popular mobile operating system.
The new Gemini app will include Gemini Live, a voice-based feature that allows users to have natural conversations with the chatbot. Apple has already said that it will include OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the refreshed version of its voice assistant Siri.
“When you want to practice for an upcoming interview, ask for advice on things to do in a new city, or just brainstorm,” Brian Marquardt, a senior director of product management at Google, said in a statement. And it’s great if you want to develop creative ideas.” ,
Gemini is Google’s answer to the popular application ChatGPT, developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Google initially launched it under the name Bard in February 2023, and has since added more capabilities while facing controversy.
Google announced the voice feature during an event in August and first added it to phones powered by its mobile operating system, Android.
Technological advances in AI, driven by the rise of large language models, have led to the emergence of a new generation of voice assistants far more capable than Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant.
Google’s Gemini is the replacement for Live Assistant, an eight-year-old product built using older AI technology.
Hundreds of employees on the voice assistant team were laid off in January as part of a restructuring to “become more efficient,” a company spokesperson said at the time.
Since then Google has become more consolidated. Last month it moved the Gemini app team to its AI research lab DeepMind, which CEO Sundar Pichai also attributed to increased efficiency.
DeepMind is one of a number of research organizations that is applying new techniques to improve AI models as traditional approaches to building large models face unexpected delays and challenges, Reuters reported this week.
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