Gemini Taps Your Life for Smarter AI

Google's Gemini has received its most significant upgrade yet with the launch of Personal Intelligence, enabling the AI to securely access user data from integrated Google applications. This new feature allows Gemini to tap into services such as Gmail, Google Photos, and YouTube to gain deeper context for user queries, promising a more personalized and capable AI assistant.

Initial examples showcase Gemini's enhanced abilities, such as identifying optimal car tires without prior knowledge and extracting license plate information directly from photos. It can also generate detailed travel itineraries tailored to individual preferences, suggesting specific restaurants and activities based on the user's history and known information. This functionality aims to redefine user interaction with AI chatbots.

Personal Intelligence begins its rollout today in beta for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the United States, with plans for broader country and free user access soon. Google emphasizes built-in privacy controls, assuring users that data access is user-controlled and remains within Google's ecosystem, with no sensitive information shared with third parties. The feature is opt-in and provides source transparency for its responses.