- Google is reportedly developing a new agent version of Gemini.
- The new Gemini is called Remy and will act as an AI agent 24/7 in daily life.
- Rémy will do digital shopping, monitor routines and help use connected apps and services.
Google has plans for its Gemini AI models beyond the chatbot role and into something much more complex, according to a Business Insider report. The company is developing an always-on AI agent version of Gemini, designed to perform tasks for users, even through third-party services, with minimal user intervention.
The AI agent project is called “Rémy” and internal documents state that the goal is to create “a true assistant capable of acting on your behalf” in every aspect of a user’s life. The goal is not to initiate a conversation with the AI like with today’s Gemini, but to have it do things for you in the background.
Proactive Gemini
The agent will be “your 24/7 digital partner,” able to communicate with others, send documents, make purchases, and run errands proactively without waiting for instructions.
Some have suggested this would happen in recent months. Gemini’s personal intelligence features allow AI to find answers using content from Gmail and other Google services, including creating AI images of the user based on what has been uploaded to Google Photos. Rémy seems to transform this information, called “personal context”, into action.
Rather than acting as a simple chat window, Remy AI agents offer sections dedicated to current tasks, planned actions, and tasks awaiting user input. Completed tasks can be pinned, renamed, and reopened later. Ultimately, this would make AI agents something to continually interact with, not just when you feel ready to have a conversation with an AI chatbot.
Convenience with monitoring
If you’re wondering how much information Google’s AI will process to do all this, the warnings attached to the agent are full of language explaining that it’s experimental and could “make errors and unintentionally expose data.” Users are advised not to use it for professional tasks.
Users will be able to manage or delete this information through Settings, as well as disable connected apps and certain personalization features. But AI that can truly organize parts of your life can’t work in isolation. He should know where you go, what you look for, who you talk to, what you buy and how you spend your time. For some people, this level of integration will seem helpful. For others, it comes uncomfortably close to the idea of outsourcing free will to software.
But Google has many competitors that offer their own AI, capable of running browsers and apps with minimal human oversight. But many people have already filled Google’s ecosystem with information. Thus, an agent would integrate seamlessly with the services they may already depend on on a daily basis.
The AI industry is moving away from systems that simply react and toward systems that act continuously. Google seems determined to make Gemini one of the first major examples of this transition.
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