#gemini-app

#gemini-app

Google has given Gemini the ability to spit out AI-generated music, courtesy of DeepMind's latest audio model. Beta access to Lyria 3 is rolling out in the Gemini app, enabling users to generate 30-second tracks based on text, images, and videos, without having to leave the chatbot window. The new music-making tool is available globally starting today in English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese, with plans to expand in the future.

Google is reportedly working on a new Gemini App user experience, which it is calling 2.0. The company is putting "huge investment" into this update of the Gemini user experience but we are not sure when this new look and experience will be released. Logan Kilpatrick, product lead for Google AI Studio, said this on X over the Thanksgiving holiday.

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While Natzir was analyzing his access logs, he found an undocumented user agent string "GeminiiOS" that didn't appear anywhere in Google's or public documentation. After he did some digging, he was able to confirm that it corresponds to visits generated from the WebView embedded inside the Gemini app on iOS. The example user agent Nazir sent me was: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148 GoogleWv/1.0 (WKWebView) GeminiiOS/1.2025.4170000

AI Overviews in Google Search now has 2 billion monthly users, increasing from 1.5 billion in May 2025, reflecting strong consumer demand for AI features.

To find out the name of a song, Android users can utilize various features such as Circle to Search, Gemini, and the Google app to identify music.

After about a minute to upload and analyze, Gemini identified where I captured the video (Kill Devil Hills, N.C.), and told me about the overall scene.

The new app allows iPad users to utilize split view for multitasking, providing a seamless experience when using Gemini alongside other applications.