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Gemini AI smarts are coming to Google Home to make the Assistant a better conversationalist
Here at CES 2025, I was able to get a live demonstration of the way Google is integrating Gemini into its smart home ecosystem.
During the demonstration, held in a simulated (and very posh) kitchen, the Google representative asked things like what to cook with ingredients he had on hand (chicken and spinach). Pulling footage from a connected Nest Cam, the Hub displayed a dog walking into a kitchen, swiping a cookie and scampering off. The video analysis adds to tech already available with the Nest Cam, like familiar face recognition and builds on features that were launched in beta last year where you could type questions into the Google Home app, asking things like, "Did my FedEx package get delivered?"
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