Google Maps to receive AI upgrade powered by Gemini

Google Maps is to receive an AI upgrade powered by the tech giant’s Gemini. This will add a conversational, hands-free experience to the app that is intended to make navigation smarter and less distracting. It represents yet another step in Google’s ongoing integration of the generative model into its most widely used products. The firm added AI smarts to Google Earth not so long ago. SEE ALSO: Google is turning Chrome into an AI web browser powered by Gemini Gemini’s role in Maps is to act as a voice-based companion that can handle multi-step requests. Drivers can ask for a… [Continue Reading]