Google offers a preview of a more personal assistant
Google's Gemini will soon be able to access data from various Google services to become a more "personal" assistant with memory.
Google Gemini-App.
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Google's AI assistant Gemini will be extensively upgraded in a few weeks. The aim is to turn it into a real personal assistant. In the run-up to Google's developer conference I/O on May 20, Josh Woodward, Vice President of Google Labs and Gemini, gives a preview of future functions. The AI assistant will not only become more personal, but also "proactive" and "more powerful".
As Woodward writes on X, Gemini is to be developed into a real assistant that knows the user better than was previously possible. To this end, the AI service will be able to access all the information in the personal Google account, including Gmail, photos, calendar, search, YouTube and other services, with the user's permission.
Gemini will also soon be able to remember past chats, giving Google's assistant a similar memory function to OpenAI's ChatGPT. ChatGPT has been able to retrieve previous conversations for a while now and deduce how users use the service.
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Gemini app should anticipate what the user wants
Gemini is designed to anticipate what users expect from the assistant. What this means in concrete terms remains unclear: Woodward merely adds that the AI tool should offer "insights and actions" before users ask for them in order to "free up your mind and time for the really important things". However, Google made a similar promise years ago with Google Now and the Assistant.
In terms of performance, the Google manager says that the "best assistant turns ideas into action". Woodward is referring to the Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model announced in mid-April, which can "research, stage and create images, videos and code". This "new era of models" will lead to a "new era of user experience". A current example of this is the Gemini tool Canvas.
Google will present more details – and, according to experience, demonstrations – of the new Gemini functions at the Google I/O keynote on May 20. One week earlier, on May 13, the manufacturer will explain what it has planned for its mobile operating system at a dedicated "Android Show". The focus is likely to be on Android 16, which is due to be released in the course of June.
Google had already given Gemini numerous new functions and updates before I/O: In addition to Gemini 2.5, which was released in April, the company had announced the ability to upload and edit images. Google also integrated support for the LaTeX text typesetting system.
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