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Carl Franzen@AI News | VentureBeat
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Google is enhancing Android development with its Gemini AI model, launching Gemini in Android Studio for Businesses to streamline the design of work applications. This new offering is a subscription-based service that aims to meet the growing demand for secure, privacy-conscious, and customizable AI integration within large organizations and development teams. By leveraging Gemini, Android developers can now more easily create workplace apps within the Android ecosystem, with enhanced features tailored for managing sensitive codebases and workflows. This move brings AI-assisted coding into enterprise-grade environments without compromising data governance or intellectual property protection.
Visual AI in Gemini Live is also bringing AI-powered vision to devices like the Samsung Galaxy S25. The upgrade allows users to grant Gemini Live access to their camera and screen sharing, enabling the AI to provide real-time conversational interactions about what it sees. Samsung states the new upgrade to Gemini Live means the AI can 'have a real-time conversation with users about what it sees – making everyday tasks easier.' For Galaxy S25 users, this update is already rolling out as a free upgrade, demonstrating the deepening partnership between Google and Samsung in the AI space. In addition to benefiting developers and end users, Gemini is also being integrated into other Google services, such as Google Chat. Gemini in Google Chat can now help users catch up on unread conversations with summaries, even extending this ability to direct messages and read conversations. This functionality, already available, has also been expanded to include three additional languages: Spanish, Portuguese, and German. These enhancements across different platforms show Google's commitment to leveraging AI to improve productivity and user experience across its suite of products. Recommended read:
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Google is significantly enhancing user interface (UI) design through AI-driven personalization, moving away from static interfaces to adaptive experiences tailored for individual users. This personalization leverages machine learning algorithms, behavioral analytics, and real-time data processing to modify UI elements dynamically. AI systems gather data from various sources like browsing history, purchase behavior, and device interactions, which are then cleaned, structured, and anonymized to maintain privacy. These models analyze user behavior and segment users into distinct profiles based on their preferences and interaction history, leading to real-time content adaptation through reinforcement learning.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 series is receiving a significant AI upgrade in the form of Gemini Live with Visual AI. This update, powered by Google Gemini, enables S25 users to have real-time visual and conversational interactions with their AI assistant. Visual AI allows users to grant Gemini Live access to their camera and screen sharing, enabling the AI to identify and provide information about what the user is seeing. This feature aims to make everyday tasks easier through real-time conversations about the user's surroundings. Google is rolling out Gemini Live Video and screensharing features, initially available on the Google Pixel 9, Samsung Galaxy S25, and for Gemini Advanced subscribers. Gemini Live Video allows users to point their phone's camera at objects in the real world and ask questions to learn more about them, similar to Apple's Visual Intelligence. Screensharing enables users to share their phone screen with Gemini and ask questions about the content displayed on websites or apps. Other Android phones are expected to receive these features later this month, but they will be exclusive to Gemini Advanced subscribers, requiring a $20 monthly subscription. Recommended read:
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Google has broadened access to its advanced AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, showcasing impressive capabilities and competitive pricing designed to challenge rival models like OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Google's latest flagship model is currently recognized as a top performer, excelling in Optical Character Recognition (OCR), audio transcription, and long-context coding tasks. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted Gemini 2.5 Pro as Google's "most intelligent model + now our most in demand." Demand has increased by over 80 percent this month alone across both Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
Google's expansion includes a tiered pricing structure for the Gemini 2.5 Pro API, offering a more affordable option compared to competitors. Prompts with less than 200,000 tokens are priced at $1.25 per million for input and $10 per million for output, while larger prompts increase to $2.50 and $15 per million tokens, respectively. Although prompt caching is not yet available, its future implementation could potentially lower costs further. The free tier allows 500 free grounding queries with Google Search per day, with an additional 1,500 free queries in the paid tier, with costs per 1,000 queries set at $35 beyond that. The AI research group EpochAI reported that Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 84% on the GPQA Diamond benchmark, surpassing the typical 70% score of human experts. This benchmark assesses challenging multiple-choice questions in biology, chemistry, and physics, validating Google's benchmark results. The model is now available as a paid model, along with a free tier option. The free tier can use data to improve Google's products while the paid tier cannot. Rates vary by tier and range from 150-2,000/minute. Google will retire the Gemini 2.0 Pro preview entirely in favor of 2.5. Recommended read:
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Maximilian Schreiner@THE DECODER
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Google has unveiled Gemini 2.5 Pro, its latest and "most intelligent" AI model to date, showcasing significant advancements in reasoning, coding proficiency, and multimodal functionalities. According to Google, these improvements come from combining a significantly enhanced base model with improved post-training techniques. The model is designed to analyze complex information, incorporate contextual nuances, and draw logical conclusions with unprecedented accuracy. Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for Gemini Advanced users and on Google's AI Studio.
Google emphasizes the model's "thinking" capabilities, achieved through chain-of-thought reasoning, which allows it to break down complex tasks into multiple steps and reason through them before responding. This new model can handle multimodal input from text, audio, images, videos, and large datasets. Additionally, Gemini 2.5 Pro exhibits strong performance in coding tasks, surpassing Gemini 2.0 in specific benchmarks and excelling at creating visually compelling web apps and agentic code applications. The model also achieved 18.8% on Humanity’s Last Exam, demonstrating its ability to handle complex knowledge-based questions. Recommended read:
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Google has begun rolling out real-time interaction features to its AI assistant, Gemini, enabling live video and screen sharing. These enhancements, powered by Project Astra, allow users to engage more intuitively with their devices, marking a significant advancement in AI-assisted technology. These features are available to Google One AI Premium subscribers.
The new live video feature allows users to utilize their smartphone cameras to engage in real-time visual interactions with Gemini, enabling the AI to answer questions about what it observes. Gemini can analyze a user’s phone screen or camera feed in real-time and instantly answer questions. The screen-sharing feature enables the AI to analyze and provide insights on the displayed content, useful for navigating complex applications or troubleshooting issues. Google plans to expand access to more users soon. Recommended read:
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Evelyn Blake@The Tech Basic
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Google has started rolling out new AI tools for Gemini, allowing the assistant to analyze your phone screen or camera feed in real time. These features are powered by Project Astra and are available to Google One AI Premium subscribers. The update transforms Gemini into a visual helper, enabling users to point their camera at an object and receive descriptions or suggestions from the AI.
These features are part of Google's Project Astra initiative, which aims to enhance AI's ability to understand and interact with the real world in real-time. Gemini can now analyze your screen in real-time through a "Share screen with Live" button and analyze your phone's camera. Early adopters have tested the screen-reading tool, and Google plans to expand access to more users soon. With Gemini's live video and screen sharing functionalities, Google is positioning itself ahead in the competitive landscape of AI assistants. Recommended read:
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Matthias Bastian@THE DECODER
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Google has announced significant upgrades to its Gemini app, focusing on enhanced functionality, personalization, and accessibility. A key update is the rollout of the upgraded 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model, now supporting file uploads and boasting a 1 million token context window for processing large-scale information. This model aims to improve reasoning and response efficiency by breaking down prompts into actionable steps. The Deep Research feature, powered by Flash Thinking, allows users to create detailed multi-page reports with real-time insights into its reasoning process and is now available globally in over 45 languages, accessible for free or with expanded access for Gemini Advanced users.
Another major addition is the experimental "Personalization" feature, integrating Gemini with Google apps like Search to deliver tailored responses based on user activity. Gemini is also strengthening its integration with Google apps such as Calendar, Notes, Tasks, and Photos, enabling users to handle complex multi-app requests in a single prompt. Google is also putting Gemini 2.0 AI into robots through the DeepMind AI team, which has developed two new models of Gemini specifically designed to work with robots. The first, Gemini Robotics, is an advanced vision-language-action (VLA) LLM that uses physical motion to respond to prompts. The second model, Gemini Robots-ER, is a VLM with advanced spatial understanding, enabling robots to navigate changing environments. Google is partnering with robotics companies to further develop humanoid robots. Google will replace its long-standing Google Assistant with Gemini on mobile devices later this year. The classic Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices, marking the end of an era. The shift represents Google's pivot toward generative AI, believing that Gemini's advanced AI capabilities will deliver a more powerful and versatile experience. Gemini will also come to tablets, cars, and connected devices like headphones and watches. The company also introduced Gemini Embedding, a novel embedding model initialized from the powerful Gemini Large Language Model, aiming to enhance embedding quality across diverse tasks. Recommended read:
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Matthias Bastian@THE DECODER
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Google is enhancing its Gemini AI assistant with the ability to access users' Google Search history to deliver more personalized and relevant responses. This opt-in feature allows Gemini to analyze a user's search patterns and incorporate that information into its responses. The update is powered by the experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, which the company launched in late 2024.
This new capability, known as personalization, requires explicit user permission. Google is emphasizing transparency by allowing users to turn the feature on or off at any time, and Gemini will clearly indicate which data sources inform its personalized answers. To test the new feature Google suggests users ask about vacation spots, YouTube content ideas, or potential new hobbies. The system then draws on individual search histories to make tailored suggestions. Recommended read:
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Google is pushing the boundaries of AI and robotics with its Gemini AI models. Gemini Robotics, an advanced vision-language-action model, now enables robots to perform physical tasks with improved generalization, adaptability, and dexterity. This model interprets and acts on text, voice, and image data, showcasing Google's advancements in integrating AI for practical applications. Furthermore, the development of Gemini Robotics-ER, which incorporates embodied reasoning capabilities, signifies another step toward smarter, more adaptable robots.
Google's approach to robotics emphasizes safety, employing both physical and semantic safety systems. The company is inviting filmmakers and creators to experiment with the model to improve the design and development. Veo builds on years of generative video model work, including Generative Query Network(GQN),DVD-GAN,Imagen-Video,Phenaki,WALT,VideoPoetandLumiere— combining architecture, scaling laws and other novel techniques to improve quality and output resolution. Recommended read:
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Google has enhanced the iOS experience by integrating Gemini AI with new lock screen widgets and control center access. iPhone users can now interact with Gemini directly from their lock screen, gaining quick access to Gemini Live and other tools without needing to unlock their devices. This update simplifies AI interactions on Apple's mobile platform, making it more accessible and convenient for users.
The new Gemini app widget allows instant access to the AI's voice chat feature, Gemini Live, by simply adding the widget to the lock screen and tapping it. Beyond voice chats, the update introduces three additional widgets: Camera Upload, allowing users to snap photos and send them to Gemini for analysis; Reminders & Calendar, for quickly setting events or tasks; and Text Chat, enabling immediate typed conversations. These widgets aim to streamline basic AI interactions, reducing the need to unlock the device. Recommended read:
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Sherri Wang@digitimes.com
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Samsung has officially unveiled its Galaxy S25 series, marking a significant shift in smartphone design. The new lineup emphasizes the integration of generative AI, aiming to provide a more intuitive and streamlined user experience. Key features include human-like AI agents and a unified AI platform, designed to simplify user tasks across various applications. The S25 Ultra, leading the series, features advanced camera technology, including a 200MP sensor, and AI-powered video capabilities. The S25 series also aims to seamlessly integrate across applications, allowing users to effortlessly move between tasks with AI-driven support, such as automatically integrating search results with calendars and reminders.
The Galaxy S25 series includes a focus on transparency and user safety, with the implementation of Content Credentials. This feature allows for easy identification of AI-generated images and content. This standard will be extended to video, audio, and documents to help users better understand the digital content they encounter. This move comes at a time where concerns about misinformation are a growing issue, and it sets a new standard for digital content authenticity. The S25 series is currently available for preorder with shipments scheduled to begin on February 7. Recommended read:
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Google has announced the integration of its Gemini AI model into Google Workspace, making it available for all Business and Enterprise plan users. This move eliminates the need for add-ons and brings AI-powered tools to businesses of all sizes. The new features are now embedded across Workspace applications like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Meet. This allows users to leverage AI for tasks such as drafting documents, summarizing emails, and automatically generating meeting notes. Users can also interact with Gemini Advanced, which can assist with research, coding and data analysis.
The update was rolled out for Workspace Business customers on Thursday, with Enterprise customers gaining access later this month. In an effort to make AI accessible for every business, Google has simplified pricing, effectively bundling AI into the workspace plans. For example, a customer on the Business Standard plan with the Gemini Business add-on previously paying $32, will now be charged only $14 per user. The pricing changes take effect immediately for new customers, with existing customers transitioning on March 17th. Google has emphasized its commitment to data security and privacy, stating that user data, prompts, and generated responses will not be used to train Gemini models outside of their domain without permission. Recommended read:
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