Google is bringing gemini, its generative ai, to all cars that support android auto in the next few months, the company announced At Its Android Show Ahead of the company’s 2025 I/O Developer Conference.
The company says Adding Gemini Functionality to Android Auto and, Later This Year, to Cars That Run Google’s Built-In Operating System, Will Make Driving “More Product-And Fun” in a blog post,
“This is really going to be, we think, one of the largest transformations in the in-vehicle experience that we’ve seen in a very, very long time,” Patrick Brady, the vp of Android for Cars, SAID DURING AIDERS Briefing with members of the media ahead of the conference.
Gemini will surface in the android auto experience in two main ways.
Gemini will act as auch more powerful Smart Voice Assistant. Drivers (Or Passengers-Brady Said they are not Voice-Matching to Whoever Owns The Phone Running The Android Auto Experience) Will be albit to Ask Gemini to SEnd Texts, Plays, Plays, Play Things Google Assistant was alredy already to do. The difference is users won’t to be so Robotic with their commands thanks to the natural language capabilitys of gemini.
Gemini can also “Remember” Things Like Whiter a Contact Prefeers Receiving Text Messages in a Particular Language, and Handle that translation for the user. And Google Claims Gemini will be capable of doing one of the most commonly-related in-car tech demos: Finding good restaurants along a planned route. Of course, Brady said gemini will be able to mine google listings and reviews to responsibility to more specific requests (Like “Like” Taco Places with Vegan Options “).
The other main way gemini will surface is with what google is calling “Gemini Live,” Where is an option where the digital ai is essentially allied and ready to enjoy in full conversions… Whatever. BRADY SAID ThOME CONVERSANS BE About Everything from Travel Ideas For Spring Break, to brainstorming recipes a 10-yar-hour-old like, to “Roman History.”
If that all sounds a bit distraking, brady said google believes it won’T be. He Claimed The Natural Language Capabilitys will make it Easier to Ask Android Auto to Do Specific Tasks with Less FUSS, And TheRefore Gemini will “Reduce Cognitive Load.”
It’s a bold claim to make at a time when people are clamoring for car companys to move away from touchscreens and brings back physical knobs and butt Oblige.
There’s a lot still being sorted out. For now, Gemini Will Leverage Google’s Cloud processing to operate in bot android auto and on cars with Google Built-in. But brady said google is working with automakers “to build in more complete so that [Gemnini] Can Run at the edge, “Why would help not only with performance but with reliability – a challenging factor in a moving vehicle that may be laatching on the cellers everything towers Every few minuses.
Modern cars also generate a lot of data from onboard sensors, and on some models, even interior and exterior cameras. Brady said Google has “Nothing to Announce” About Whether Gemini Could Leverage that Multi-Modal Data, and that “We’ve been talking about that a lot.”
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Gemini on Android Auto and Google Built-in will be coming to all counts that alredy have access to the company’s generative ai model, and will support more than 40 languages.
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