1. Advanced Multimodal and Media Generation

The most noticeable upgrades involve generating and interacting with different types of media:

• Video Generation (Veo 3): Users can now create high-quality, immersive videos from simple text prompts, with advanced models like Veo 3 offering native support for sound effects and character dialogue. This unlocks new possibilities for creators and storytellers.

• Image Generation and Editing (Imagen 4): The Imagen 4 model provides state-of-the-art image quality, better text rendering within images, and faster generation speeds. Users can also perform targeted transformations, maintain character consistency, and fuse multiple images via natural language prompts.

• Gemini Live with Camera and Screen Sharing: This feature allows users to point their phone's camera at an object or share their screen to get real-time visual help and conversation with Gemini. This makes troubleshooting, learning, and getting context-aware advice much more intuitive and hands-on.

2. Enhanced Personalization and Context

Gemini is becoming a true personal assistant by being more aware of the user's history and environment:

• Learning from Past Chats: Gemini can now use past conversations to give more tailored and coherent responses. This eliminates the need to restart a conversation with full context, making long-term projects and continuous learning much easier.

• Deep Integration with Google Apps: Gemini connects across Google apps like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Tasks, Photos, and Maps. For example, it can find a recipe in your Gmail and add the ingredients to your Keep list, or check your Calendar availability from a concert poster photo, offering a seamless, all-in-one experience.

• Custom Gems: Users can create and even share their own custom Gems, which are personalized versions of Gemini with specific instructions for recurring tasks, like a "Weekly Meal Planner" or a "Coding Helper," saving time on repetitive prompting.

3. Productivity and Research Power

For professional and academic users, upgrades to Gemini's core reasoning and research abilities are a major draw:

• Deep Research: This feature functions as an AI research assistant, synthesizing information from hundreds of websites into comprehensive, multi-page reports in minutes. This drastically reduces the time spent on initial research and analysis.

• Large Context Window: Advanced models like Gemini 2.5 Pro offer a 1 Million (1M) token context window, allowing the AI to read and comprehend massive amounts of information at once—up to 1,500 pages of text or 30,000 lines of code—making it ideal for analyzing large files and complex codebases.

• Scheduled Actions: Users can ask Gemini to plan ahead for future or recurring tasks, such as getting a daily summary of their calendar and emails or weekly updates on a topic, turning the AI into a proactive, organizational tool.

4. Expansion into the Smart Home

Google is replacing the core Google Assistant with Gemini for Home, bringing its conversational and contextual intelligence to smart speakers, displays, and cameras.

• More Natural Conversation: Gemini can handle complex, conversational commands, remember context, and offer smarter suggestions for tasks like cooking and reminders, making smart home control more human-like.

• AI-Powered Camera Alerts: Smart cameras are upgraded to provide more insightful alerts, like recognizing a "delivery driver dropping a package" instead of a generic "motion detected" alert.

These new functions and upgrades appeal to users by delivering tangible value—saving time, simplifying complex tasks, fostering creativity, and making technology feel more personalized and intuitive.