Google overnight unveiled a line-up of new Pixel smartphones with deeper integration of its AI technology.
The upgrades include a Pixel -only feature that lets users search for information stored in screenshots. Android users can also now pull up Gemini, Google’s chatbot, as an overlay on top of another app to answer questions or generate content.
“We’re fully in the Gemini era,” he told engineers, executives, analysts and media attending the bigger-than-usual event at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. The earlier timing of the event is Google’s latest bid to keep up with rivals in injecting AI features into its consumer-facing products and comes ahead of Apple’s planned launch of a new iPhone in September.In June, Apple announced that devices including its latest version of iPhones would get upgrades that include “Apple Intelligence”, a slew of generative AI-powered features within native applications, and an integration with ChatGPT, the chatbot developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
The new gadgets are available to preorder on Tuesday. Google does not sell its smartphone portfolio in South Africa and the company has not communicated any change to that policy for these latest gadgets. Android represents one of several frontlines where Google is battling competitors to embed AI in ways that consumers will use. In May, it debuted a swath of upgrades to core products like its search engine.
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