Google's latest Gemini for Home updates enhance camera features by improving face recognition accuracy, distinguishing between animals more effectively, and providing more detailed video descriptions, with rollouts beginning December 22, 2025, and ongoing tuning expected into the new year.
The rollout of Google's Gemini for Home smart device service has faced issues, including bugs, incorrect task responses, and features being locked behind a subscription paywall, leading to user frustration and a less than ideal experience compared to the mobile app, with Google needing to address these problems quickly.
Google has begun rolling out Gemini for Home in early access, enhancing Google Assistant with generative AI capabilities for more natural conversations and complex commands, compatible with most Nest speakers and smart home devices. Users can sign up via the Google Home app to test the new features, which aim to eventually replace the standard Google Assistant.
Google has launched early access to Gemini for Home, an advanced AI voice assistant for compatible smart speakers like Nest Hub and Nest Audio, offering more natural conversational capabilities. Users can sign up via the Google Home app, but should be aware that once upgraded, devices cannot revert to the previous Assistant. Gemini Live, which enables dynamic chat, requires a Google Home Premium subscription. The update aims to make smart speakers more intelligent and conversational, moving closer to the sci-fi assistant vision.
Google is rolling out its new Gemini for Home voice assistant in the US, offering expanded natural language commands, better smart home control, and contextual understanding, initially available to select devices through an early access program, with broader availability expected in 2026.
Google's Home chief confirms ongoing investment in smart displays, hinting at a new Nest Hub with an 'incredible form factor' for Gemini for Home, though no specific details or release date have been announced yet.
Google is gradually rolling out Gemini for Home, its renewed smart home effort, starting with app updates and new features in select countries, with voice assistant and camera features expanding globally through early 2026, and the Google Home Speaker expected in most countries by spring 2026.
Google is rolling out Gemini for Home, a new voice assistant feature, initially through an Early Access program in select countries, starting in the US on October 28, with plans to expand globally by early 2026. The program allows users to test new features and provide feedback, with partnerships underway to bring Gemini to more third-party devices. The rollout includes compatibility with various Nest cameras and doorbells, and requires users to activate their Google AI Pro benefits if they have existing subscriptions.
Google is gradually rolling out Gemini for Home, a comprehensive smart home update including app redesign, new voice assistant features, and AI-enhanced camera capabilities, starting now in select countries with broader availability planned through early 2026.
Google unveiled a new AI-powered smart speaker called Gemini for Home during its NYC event, featuring advanced conversational capabilities and integration with existing Google devices, set to launch in early access in October. The device, resembling a squished sphere with a colorful ring light, aims to replace the old Google Assistant with a more natural and context-aware AI that can handle complex commands and assist with various tasks around the home.
Google is launching 'Gemini for Home,' a new AI-powered voice assistant that will replace Google Assistant on Nest devices, offering more natural interactions, better context understanding, and advanced capabilities, with a rollout starting in October and potential new hardware to follow.