Gemini Intelligence brings app automation to Android
Key takeaways
- Google If Google has its way, soon your phone, and many other Android-based devices, won't need much input from you at all.
- The company says it spent five months fine-tuning its latest agent to make it capable of seamlessly navigating and completing multi-step tasks across some of the most popular phone apps in use today.
- Google adds the system is even more powerful when it can pull context from your phone's screen or an image.
Google If Google has its way, soon your phone, and many other Android-based devices, won't need much input from you at all. During the Android Show: I/O Edition, the company announced Gemini Intelligence, a system designed to automate tedious tasks. In short, Google has created a computer use agent (think: Claude Cowork or Perplexity Personal Computer) for phones.
The company says it spent five months fine-tuning its latest agent to make it capable of seamlessly navigating and completing multi-step tasks across some of the most popular phone apps in use today. As you might imagine, Google claims the system is capable of some significant feats of automation. For instance, the company says the agent can read a class syllabus in Gmail and then put all the books you might need for that course in a shopping cart.
Google adds the system is even more powerful when it can pull context from your phone's screen or an image. The company paints a scenario where users might see a travel brochure in a hotel and ask Gemini to find a similar tour on Expedia.