Have you ever used Google Bard from your mobile browser and wondered why the chatbot doesn’t have an Android app? Apparently Google also asked this question because The app is now available for download. Of course: Due to Bard’s name change, the app was called Gemini. It’s free and remains in the United States for now.

Google is making a big change to how it interacts with its tools; Gemini has come for everyone now Let’s leave aside the person who was once responsible for AI chats: Google Bard. With the three-language model struggling to compete against ChatGPT, Google users finally have a native app for our Androids. It promises a lot, let’s see if it will deliver.

All the potential of the web in a simple application

Accessing Google Bard was not difficult, as it was enough to load the chatbot website in the web browser, but there is no doubt that It’s much easier to use with an app. Said and done: it took a while, but the Gemini app is now on Google Play.

Despite the name change The Gemini app so far does the same thing that Google Bard does on the web: We can ask it to search for something in the search engine, respond to a problem with logical reasoning, the chatbot offers extremely natural language, we can ask it for code and even images. The latter is only in the United States, but there is a trick to achieving it.

The Gemini app offers a virtual assistant powered by the company’s Gemini Pro AI; anyone Gemini Ultra if the user is a Gemini Advance subscriber (€21.99 per month with a two-month free trial). This first version is fully functional, ad-free and free.

Want to have direct access to Google AI on your Android? The app is currently only available for download in the United States, but Google promises to expand the download feature to more countries soon.

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