Announced at Google I/O 2023 and officially unveiled last December, Google Gemini is Google’s big bet in an open war between technology companies in the field of artificial intelligence. It faces mainly Microsoft Copilot, a set of GPT-based services from OpenAI, Llama, which recently presented its third generation, and soon everything that we expect Apple to start presenting from WWDC 2024.

The key focus of all the technology companies behind these models and the services that depend on them is undoubtedly the mobile ecosystem and especially smartphones. Not for nothing, according to StatCounter data for cumulative operating systems (desktop and mobile, i.e. from the total number of devices of all types), the sum of Android and iOS shows 61.72%, which again confirms the use of smartphones. and tablets have been outperforming PCs for some time now.

So when Google launched the Gemini app, which also allows you to replace the traditional Google Assistant with this new tool, set the input threshold to Android 12 and higher versions. This in itself already provided a lot of reach, as currently (again with data from StatCounter) the three latest versions of Android (14, 13 and 12) account for almost 60% of the users of this operating system. System.

Mr. Federico, share it @Google #Gemini now supports @Android 10 and above, expanding its compatibility. It works flawlessly on my device. @AssembleDebug@APKMirror @ArtemR @AndroidPolice @9to5Google @AndroidAuth @GoogleAI @sundarpichai @MishaalRahman @xdadevelopers

— Sumanta Das (@isumantadas) April 25, 2024

Now, with this initial deployment, two previous versions (10 and 11) have been dropped, which currently represent 25% of users, a slice of the pie large enough to be left unattended. The company has evidently realized this and as we can read in 9to5Google, Google has extended the reach of Gemini so that it is now also available for Android 10 and Android 11. In this way, in theory, 85% of Google OS users already have access to Gemini.

I say theoretically yes because When it comes to geographic deployment, Google has chosen a fairly conservative strategy from Gemini. The web version is therefore already available in many markets, including the European Union, but the same is not true of the application, which is currently not available in our country. We understand that this is due to a number of reasons, from ensuring compliance with different legal frameworks to ensuring the necessary infrastructure to support the service for all users.