Google's Gemini Live is a replacement of Assistant, an eight-year-old product built using older AI technology. Hundreds of employees on the Voice Assistant team were laid off in January as part of a reorganization to "become more efficient," a company ...

Gemini is Google’s latest answer to multimodal AI, letting users upload various media types — images, audio, and video — for analysis and interaction. And like ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, Gemini comes with a feature called Gemini Live, designed to make AI interactions feel more natural and human through voice-based chats.

Alphabet's Google on Thursday released a smartphone app for its artificial intelligence chatbot on Apple's App Store that introduced the latest generation of its voice assistant to the popular mobile operating system.