Googles Gemini Live can talk to you, but I wouldnt call the human-sounding AI chatbot a stimulating conversationalist.
Despite that, Google wants you toat the very leastimagine Gemini Live as a true companion.
Its a small change, but it helps exemplify how Google will position its AI in 2025.
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Eventually, Google wants to add vision capabilities from GoogleDeepMinds Project Astraassistant.
One question is whether or not Googles latest model is as good as it claims.
The new models arrived afterOpenAI showedthe publicitso3 reasoning model.
Last week, the companydebutedits miniature o3-mini reasoning model.
Samsungs Galaxy S25 phonesbig launch feature was cross-app capabilities with Gemini.
However, inGizmodos own tests,the AI features were far more mundane.
The AI is less capable of handling more complex tasks.
If youre spending time checking the AIs work, you may as well just perform the task yourself.
Compared to the so-so capabilities of Samsungs phones, Google will be looking to wow audiences with AI capabilities.
Well have to wait and see if all this effort and hype was worth the trouble.
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