Gemini for Home replaces Google Assistant on Google Home devices and delivers more natural, context-aware, and efficient conversations. The assistant supports longer, multi-turn dialogues and accepts complex prompts instead of single-step commands. Gemini leverages advanced reasoning, inference, and search capabilities from Google's top models to improve performance and ease of use. Users continue to invoke the assistant with "Hey Google," while interactions become more nuanced and able to maintain context. The upgrade targets common limitations of existing assistants by using generative AI to enable smarter home automation, with early access starting in October.
Think of Gemini for Home as if ChatGPT became your smart home assistant. Instead of an "If this, then that" behavior or following simple commands one at a time, Gemini will be able to have longer, more natural conversations with you, letting you give it more complex prompts than simply "Turn on the living room lamp."
"Gemini for Home uses the advanced reasoning, inference, and search capabilities of our most capable models, making it both more powerful and easier to use than Google Assistant," wrote Anish Kattukaran, Google Home's chief product officer, in . "You still say, 'Hey Google' to get started, but your interactions will feel fundamentally new. Gemini will understand the context and get it done, and we're replacing rigid commands so you can use more nuanced or complex requests, too."
If you've ever used Google Home, Amazon Alexa, or Apple's Siri, you're likely familiar with how inefficient these virtual assistants can be. While they're helpful, there's still a lot of room for improvement for AI assistants. Thanks to generative AI, Google is hoping to step that up with Gemini for Home.
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