Gemini is taking over some more Google Assistant tasks

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Gemini is taking over some more

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Assistant tasks

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continues to replace

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Assistant features using its Gemini AI models and branding, as

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in as-yet unreleased code by Android Authority. The tech giant’s infusion of Gemini is rolling throughout its product line.

Upcoming Gemini Extensions will take over

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Assistant integrations with apps including

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Messages, Spotify, and WhatsApp. These Gemini extensions are designed to take over for those

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Assistant integrations while promising to personalize the interaction beyond the capacity of the older AI assistant. 

Right now, if you ask your Android device or

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app to play a song on Spotify or send a message via WhatsApp,

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Assistant completes the task. The code in the beta version of the

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app lays out how Gemini will pick up that role through Extensions running independently from

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Assistant. 

It’s not just a cosmetic shift. The Spotify Extension works like the

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Music Gemini Extension, playing a song upon request and showing an image of the song that you can tap to open Spotify. The Gemini Extensions also allow you to use much more casual language than

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Assistant when asking

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to play music on Spotify or call someone with WhatsApp. They also speed up the process by eliminating some of the follow-up clarifications required by

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Assistant. 

The AI will adapt to your preferences, remembering what apps you favor for carrying out tasks. So, if you always use WhatsApp to call certain people and your phone to call others, you’ll be able to ask the AI to call one of them without specifying which app to use, and it will automatically pick the right one. The same goes for asking Gemini to play a song on

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Music or Spotify. You can also manually adjust which apps are used for which tasks. 

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The Gemini Extensions being in beta means they can’t do everything you might want as of yet. Gemini can’t read or show old messages when asked yet, though that may be included when the final version of the update rolls out. When it does arrive, you might not find the update groundbreaking, but if you pay attention, you’ll likely notice how much better

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’s voice AI is at understanding what you want it to do and how it is completing your requests faster than you remember.

Gemini Extensions are key to

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’s efforts to encourage people to use Gemini by spreading the AI everywhere. Gemini is becoming the foundation for both

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products and how they link to third-party apps and services.

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Assistant as both a brand and a product is being superseded, though marketing is definitely as much a part of that shift as actual technical upgrades. 

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