Google Messages Reportedly Rolling Out Gemini Integration to Users, But India Might Not Get It

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Messages Reportedly Rolling Out Gemini Integration to Users, But India Might Not Get It

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is reportedly rolling out the integration of

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Messages with Gemini, its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) model. The company first introduced this feature as a beta update in March 2024, but now it is starting to be available to users in most regions. Notably, India, the ***, Switzerland, and the ********* Economic Area (EEA) have been excluded from this update. The Gemini integration allows users to take advantage of the conversational and generative capabilities of the AI model within the Messages app.

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The Mountain View-based tech giant briefly

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this new feature at the

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I/O 2024 event. Essentially, the feature creates a separate location to access the AI model. Users can find it as the first contact in the New Conversations screen (it can be accessed by tapping on the floating action button located on the bottom right).

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Messages can draft messages and emails, have a conversation, or find information from the internet for users. It can also rephrase or rewrite messages to make them better. However, users cannot access Gemini in groups or in a conversation with another user. It can only be accessed separately in a chat. Notably, Meta does allow users to access the Meta AI in WhatsApp’s group chats.

Users can also use emojis in conversations and upload an image as a prompt. However, the AI reportedly cannot process voice messages.

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According to a

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by 9to5Google, the AI feature is now being made generally available across most regions. Once it becomes available users will reportedly be able to connect the AI using

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app extensions. All of the extensions for the Gemini web client are also available for Gemini in

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Messages, except the recently introduced

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Music extension, the report stated.

The report also highlighted that while the feature will be available in the rest of the world, it is not being rolled out to India, the ***, Switzerland, and the EEA region comprised of the 27 EU countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

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has not shared the reason behind its decision.

Users will have to activate Rich Communication Services (RCS) before they can use Gemini. Also, these messages are not end-to-end encrypted. In case users come across an inaccurate or inappropriate message, they can long press to leave feedback. Currently, this feature can only be used on the smartphone and the web client or the Wear OS app does not support it.

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