Gemini is coming to supercharge Google Assistant on smart displays and speakers – and here’s how it will work

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Gemini is coming to supercharge

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Assistant on smart displays and speakers – and here’s how it will work

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• Gemini is being added to older devices with
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  Assistant
• Hidden code reveals the upgrade is coming soon
• The “improved Assistant” will offer more comprehensive answers

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Rather confusingly,

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has two smart assistants in play at the moment: Gemini and

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Assistant. For now at least,

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Assistant is sticking around on smart displays and speakers, but we’ve now got some clues as to how Gemini will be helping out.

The team at

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spotted code hidden in the latest

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app for Android that referenced “an improved Assistant” with richer responses, a better understanding of your instructions, and a new set of voices to pick from.

At the same time as the launches for the

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TV Streamer and the 4th-gen

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Nest Thermostat, we heard that Gemini would be front and center on new products – but that

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Assistant would still be doing a job on older hardware.

Based on the code found by 9to5Google – which isn’t yet enabled, and may be changed before its released to the wider world – it would appear that the extra smarts available in Gemini will soon be added to

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Assistant on Nest speakers and displays.

Switching over

Gemini is now available for both Android and iOS (Image credit:

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)

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clearly sees Gemini as the future when it comes to smart AI-powered assistants. It’s preloaded on the new Pixel 9 phones – see our

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Pixel 9 Pro review for details, for example – and is being pushed into multiple

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apps.

There are an awful lot of devices out in the wild with

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Assistant on them though – including third-party hardware that’s not made by

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– which means support for the older AI **** is going to have to continue for the foreseeable future.

Hopefully, as far as the user experience goes, this continuing transition will be pretty smooth: you’ll just speak out or type your requests, and the AI will respond accordingly, no matter which assistant you’re actually using behind the scenes.

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Gemini is slowly but surely adding support for all the tasks that

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Assistant is capable of, while also providing a more intelligent and deeper set of responses when needed, thanks to generative AI – and it seems it’s about to arrive on more smart devices soon.

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