India, May 5 -- Google is significantly expanding its assistant capabilities through Gemini, a new AI-driven experience designed to be personal, proactive and powerful. The company's vision was laid out by Josh Woodward, VP at Google, in a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), marking a clear strategic pivot towards a more intuitive, context-aware digital assistant.

At the heart of Gemini is a focus on personalisation. Internally referred to as "pcontext", the assistant will use previous interactions and context drawn from across Google's suite of services-including Gmail, Calendar, Search and Photos-to tailor responses and suggestions. This will be done with user consent and data permissions clearly in place.

Unlike previous iterations ...