- Google is making Gemini more personal, proactive, and powerful with Personal Intelligence.
- You can connect Gemini with Google apps such as Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search.
- The feature is turned off by default and you must turn it on explicitly.
Google has launched a new personalization feature for its Gemini AI chatbot called Personal Intelligence. It will allow users to connect their Google apps with Gemini. This will enable Gemini to offer more context-aware and tailored responses. It’s launching as a beta in the US and designed to make Gemini more personal, proactive, and powerful.
Gemini is Becoming More Personal, Proactive, and Powerful
Personal Intelligence is an effort by Google to make Gemini a more personalized AI assistant . It gathers context, preferences, and history so that it responds to user query with the best answer. Currently, you can connect Google apps such as Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and Google Search with Gemini.
With this capability turned on, Gemini will be able to reason across multiple sources, from your emails, photos, videos, and search. To give you an example, it can extract license plate from a photo or the tire size from emails. Basically, it can combine text, image, and video data for highly contextual answers.
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Thanks to Personal Intelligence, Gemini will go beyond giving generic answers and will actually tap into your past trips, personal preferences, and family activities to make answers more helpful. To give you some more examples, this feature will help Gemini show personalized recommendations for books, TV shows, clothing, and travel planning.
That said, keep in mind Personal Intelligence is turned off by default and users must enable it explicitly. In addition, you can choose which apps to connect and turn off apps anytime you want. Google also assures that Gemini is not trained on your Gmail or Photos content. However, AI training could be done on user prompts, Gemini’s responses, and your filtered personal data after obfuscation.
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- Apple and Google have officially confirmed their team-up for the next-gen Siri AI.
- The Cupertino Giant will be using Google’s Gemini for a more personalized Siri model as well as Apple Intelligence features.
- We can expect the next-gen Siri to come out with iOS 26.4, sometime in March or April.
Apple has officially confirmed joining forces with Google to use its Gemini AI model to power the next-generation Siri. It will offer a more personalized experience and will be coming out with the iOS 26.4 update. Apple also plans to leverage Gemini’s capabilities for other Apple Intelligence features as well, later down the line.
The Next-Gen Siri will be powered by Google’s Gemini AI
Apple officially confirmed that it will be partnering with Google in a statement to CNBC . Here’s what it stated, “After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models, and we’re excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users.”
Later, Google also shared a post on X confirming the tie-up, “Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year.”
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Both statements clearly mention that the Cupertino Giant will be using Gemini to power its assistant Siri. This was already rumored, as Apple’s attempts to acquire Perplexity went nowhere. With Gemini, Siri will get a major AI update . It will be able to handle more nuanced conversations and provide better results. Something long-time Apple users have been asking for years.
The next-gen Siri will arrive with the iOS 26.4 update, which will launch sometime in March or April. And it is only going to be available for Apple Intelligence-supported devices .
Something else worth noting is how Google’s statement mentions that Gemini will power Apple Intelligence features. This leads us to believe that Apple could use Gemini’s multi-modal capabilities for its Writings tools , Image Playground , and Message summaries, too.
Elon Musk Not Happy With Apple and Google Tie Up
xAI CEO Elon Musk also responded to Google’s announcement post on X, sharing his thoughts on the matter by saying, “This seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google, given that they also have Android and Chrome.” Though we don’t expect either Apple or Google to respond to Elon, we will update the situation as it progresses.
It is worth noting that xAI is the company behind Grok, which is in hot water currently due to its inappropriate image generation fiasco , and has been getting backlash from multiple news outlets, X users, and even government authorities.
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