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Reddit’s conversational AI search tool leverages Google Gemini


Reddit Answers, the platform's conversational AI search tool, gets an upgrade through an integration with Google Gemini. This comes over a year after Reddit Answers, the platform's conversational AI search tool, gets an upgrade through an integration with Google Gemini.

Google and Reddit announced the update on Wednesday, explaining that by incorporating Gemini on Vertex AI, it will help improve search relevance and provide quick answers for users. Reddit Answers has been in beta since December 2024 and allows users to ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant comments and existing posts. Users have had mixed opinions about the feature, with some likening it to a “k nock-off version of Grok AI,” X’s tool that has been known to generate misinformation in the past.

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