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With Gemini on Android, Google Points to Mobile Computing’s Future—and Past


Google’s new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence.

Google has poured many of its AI smarts over the past few years into improving its call screening technology to limit robocalls, and Gemini Nano with Multimodality will soon help you avoid phone scams—in real time. With the rise of AI hardware gadgets vying to replace your smartphone—and the talk of app-less generative interfaces —I asked Samat how he sees Android changing in the next five years. “As that continues, what we will find—and we’re already seeing this in our own testing—is there are opportunities to fundamentally transform the UI in certain areas where it tips over from the point of, ‘OK, that’s really assistive,’ to ‘Actually, there should be an entirely new way of doing this.’ That’s what’s fun and exciting about right now.

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