Android continues to fill up with Artificial Intelligence Features in all its corners. Gemini is the new name for Google Bard, Google’s AI, which has arrived in the form of a native application. Now, in the context of MWC 2024, the green robot operating system takes a major step forward with seven new features based on generative AI.
However, the search giant continues to find formulas adapted to its needs. chatbot in the popular operating system. One of them is to include Gemini in the Google Messages application, the one that allows us to send RCS messages. Soon you will start helping us develop messages and even create images.
Gemini joins Google Messages
Google’s efforts in the field of instant messaging run through “Google Messages”, the Android application that brings RCS messages to life and which can also handle our traditional SMS. After the end of last year due to an update with many new features, such as Markdown formatting or noise removal in audio, now welcome to Gemini.
“Gemini,” as written, will appear as a new conversation in Google Messages. He chatbot It will be in the messaging application, in its internal version Gemini 1.0 Pro. This is the free standard version of Google AI, remember that the Gemini Ultra model corresponds to Gemini Advanced (commercial name).
In this location, Gemini has adapted to offer more concise answers mobile-friendly. Indeed, in addition to generating texts and helping us answer our questions, it can also create images when we ask it.
Google Images
And if that wasn’t enough, is compatible with Gemini extensions which are part of the Google Workspace suite, with services such as Gmail, Drive and Docs. On the other hand, you can work with Google Maps, and even YouTube.
When it comes to privacy, Gemini in Google Messages will not leave our conversation with him. Therefore, you will not be able to read any other conversations hosted on our mobile, nor access group conversations. We will talk to the chatbot via the aforementioned RCS, yes, no end-to-end encryption.
Privacy settings are maintained in relation to our settings in the “Your activity in Gemini apps” section, so it is advisable to review them before starting a conversation with the chatbot. We can choose for how long our activity will be saved: 3, 18 or 36 months. If we deactivate it, they will only last 72 hours.
For now, Gemini is coming to Google Messages in a open beta, to which you can register from this link. Of course, you must own one of these Android phones:
There is another important asterisk: Gemini for Google Messages initially arrives only in English, being possible access from over 165 countries. To use it in Spanish you have to be patient because nothing has been confirmed yet, although it is expected that it will eventually arrive over time.
By | 9to5Google
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