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“But on ANDROID it’s so much more.”

Google’s Sameer Samat just made very clear how much Google sees Gemini as a way to make Android a better operating system. Gemini app? On iOS? Yeah yeah sure sure. But AI on Android, and particularly on Pixel, is where the real stuff is for Google. The AI race is very much a smartphone race, friends.

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