TL;DR
- Google is getting ready to carry Gemini to Android Automotive OS too.
- We’ve beforehand noticed clues of Gemini’s impending arrival on Android Auto too, and now Google appears to be aiming for the OS constructed into the in-car infotainment system.
- The rollout timeline and particular options for Gemini on Android Automotive OS are nonetheless unknown.
Google is on a mission to switch Google Assistant with Gemini. This entails swapping within the AI digital assistant on all surfaces that beforehand relied on Google Assistant. We’ve lengthy found that even automobiles would make the change, with spottings of Gemini on Android Auto. The truth is, we even have demos of Gemini and Gemini Live running on Android Auto. Google has one other OS taste for automobiles known as Android Automotive OS (AAOS) which resides within the in-vehicle infotainment system, and as you’ll have figured by now, even that may quickly get Gemini.
An APK teardown helps predict options which will arrive on a service sooner or later primarily based on work-in-progress code. Nevertheless, it’s potential that such predicted options might not make it to a public launch.
We’ve noticed strings inside the Google Assistant – within the automobile app v13.1.244 launch for auto, that point out Google is engaged on bringing Gemini to Android Automotive OS, too. That is the app that handles Google Assistant performance on Android Automotive OS in your automobile.
These are the strings in query:
Code
Ask Gemini
Gemini emblem
Communicate extra naturally and get extra achieved along with your new assistant, reimagined with Google AI
Your AI assistant for the automobile
Meet Gemini
Begin now
Attempt later The strings make it amply clear that Android Automotive OS can be set to transition from Google Assistant to Gemini.
On Android Auto (not Automotive OS), Gemini continues to be underneath improvement, and the AI assistant responds relatively generically to look queries with out dipping into really helpful, car-friendly ideas. It does deal with routine duties like taking part in Spotify music with ease, indicating that it’s in a greater place to take over Google Assistant’s conventional duties. We’ll have to attend for the Android Automotive OS variant of Gemini to additional develop to see what it brings to the desk, and we’re hopeful that Google will repair the deficiencies earlier than the function will get rolled out publicly.
Google hasn’t introduced its intentions to carry Gemini to Android Automotive OS but, and the function hasn’t rolled out. However such a transfer feels imminent at this stage. We’ll hold you up to date once we study extra.
