Generative AI Comes to Google Assistant

At least 88.8 million people are predicted to use the virtual assistant in 2024

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Google plans to enhance its virtual assistant with generative AI technologies, according to a report by Axios, as the buzzy tech infiltrates more consumer-facing products.

This reform will change how people, developers and Google’s employees work with the new Assistant.

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Google has already begun work on revamping its Assistant, starting with its mobile version, per an internal email sent to employees yesterday.

The company sees a “huge opportunity to explore what a supercharged Assistant, powered by the latest LLM technology, would look like,” Google VP Peeyush Ranjan and director of product Duke Dukellis, wrote in the e-mail.

That opportunity is partly because Google has the most popular voice assistant in the U.S.,

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