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Meet Gemini AI Live: Like FaceTiming with a friend who knows everything

With its snappy, conversational AI, Google's Gemini brings multi-modal squarely back to the smartphone.

Kerry Wan/ZDNETAt its much-anticipated annual I/O event, Google announced some exciting functionality to its Gemini AI model, particularly its multi-modal capabilities, in a pre-recorded video demo. Google teased this functionality the day before I/O in a tweet that showed off Gemini correctly identifying the stage at I/O, then giving additional context to the event and asking follow-up questions of the user. In the demo video at I/O, the user turns on their smartphone's camera and pans around the room, asking Gemini to identify its surroundings and provide context on what it sees.

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