{"id":188101,"date":"2024-04-25T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/gemini-ai-is-coming-to-the-android-google-app-will-replace-assistant"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:27:17","slug":"gemini-ai-is-coming-to-the-android-google-app-will-replace-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/gemini-ai-is-coming-to-the-android-google-app-will-replace-assistant","title":{"rendered":"Gemini AI Is Coming to the Android Google App, Will Replace Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google might have invented the transformer models that led to the glut of generative AI we see today, but it wasn\u2019t the first to cash in. The search giant threw its AI work into overdrive<\/a> in the wake of ChatGPT<\/a>\u2019s appearance in Microsoft products, adding the Gemini AI to every product it can. A new report claims Gemini is about to come to the Google app on Android, and this may signal the beginning of the end for Assistant.<\/p>\n

Gemini is the current brand<\/a> for all of Google\u2019s commercial AI models\u2014whether it sticks to that is hard to say, but the Bard branding is in the rearview mirror. Gemini has been available on the web, and Google released a mobile app earlier this year. Installing that app on Android prompts you to replace Assistant despite Gemini\u2019s comparative lack of features. Google is just that committed to getting everyone using its AI. Even if you don\u2019t install that app, Google aims to get Gemini in front of your eyes by cramming it into the Google app.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s no official announcement yet, a video of the latest app update is already circulating (see below). The new version has a toggle at the top to switch between search and Gemini. If you\u2019ve seen the iOS Google app recently, it\u2019s essentially the same. There is another wrinkle for Android users, though. That toggle will also<\/em> switch your phone to use Assistant everywhere, reports<\/a> 9to5Google. The Google app will now encourage people to switch from Assistant to Gemini, and unlike the new Gemini app, it\u2019s already installed on virtually every Android phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google might have invented the transformer models that led to the glut of generative AI we see today, but it wasn\u2019t the first to cash in. The search giant threw its AI work into overdrive in the wake of ChatGPT\u2019s appearance in Microsoft products, adding the Gemini AI to every product it can. A new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}