Simply earlier than the vacation break, CEO Sundar Pichai and different Google executives had a 2025 technique assembly, with Gemini being the “greatest focus” trying forward.

On the worker assembly this month (by way of CNBC), Sundar Pichai stated: “Scaling Gemini on the buyer aspect can be our greatest focus subsequent 12 months.”

CEO Sundar Pichai stated Google will introduce a lot of AI options within the first half of the 12 months.

Particularly, Google expects the Gemini app (gemini.google.com) to be the subsequent first-party software — there are at present 15 — to hit half a billion (presumably) month-to-month customers. In October, Pichai marked Google Maps coming into the two billion month-to-month customers mark alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Play, and YouTube, with every of these companies that includes Gemini capabilities.

“In historical past, you don’t at all times have to be first however it’s a must to execute nicely and actually be the perfect at school as a product,” he stated. “I believe that’s what 2025 is all about.”

Total, Pichai stated Google has “some work to do in 2025 to shut the hole and set up a management place there as nicely.” 

In the meantime, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stated that Google goes to “turbo cost” the Gemini app and that the “merchandise themselves are going to evolve massively over the subsequent 12 months or two.” The aim is to create a common assistant — which is how Undertaking Astra is described — that “can seamlessly function over any area, any modality or any machine.”

Talking of Astra, CNBC says will probably be “up to date within the first half of the 12 months.” That might presumably be in reference to digicam/imaginative and prescient capabilities coming to Gemini Stay. It’s at present being examined as a standalone software (seen beneath), however will come to shoppers by way of the Gemini app.

We final acquired an replace on Astra through the Gemini 2.0 launch earlier this month. Hassabis additionally stated there are not any “plans for this type of subscription stage” in response to a query about whether or not Google, like OpenAI, goes to supply a $200 monthly tier.