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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’ll be mobile-only; Google Assistant devices like Nest and Home speakers and displays won’t see changes just yet.
The experience comes in the form of an overlay that acts as a frontend for the Gemini models and provides contextual recommendations and suggestions, Sissie Hsiao, Google Assistant VP, told TechCrunch in a press briefing.
Indeed, the Gemini-powered Assistant — which, depending on the device, can be summoned with a corner swipe, power button tap or “Hey Google” hotword — can accept images as well as text and voice commands.
Google gives a few example prompts in the onboarding flow, like “Help me craft a text response to my friend who is stressed at work,” “Give me some ideas to surprise my concert-loving friend on their birthday” and “Help me incorporate more plant-based options in my diet.” As on the web, Gemini in Assistant can also create images, although it’s not clear which model’s doing the generating; Bard previously tapped Imagen 2 for this purpose.
It and the capabilities it brings, like better reasoning, coding and instruction-following skills, are gated behind a new product, Gemini Advanced, that’s part of a new subscription, the Google One AI Premium Plan, priced at $20 per month.
But I wonder whether that’ll be enough to pacify Google Assistant users who perceive the AI Premium Plan as an effort to charge for model updates that were previously free.
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