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TL;DR
- Google’s been engaged on a brand new Gemini Function referred to as Proactive Help since a minimum of earlier this yr.
- Proactive Help sounds lots like Magic Cue, pulling data out of your apps based mostly on display screen context.
- Google now seems to be on the brink of present it off with the Pixel 11.
Google’s Pixel 11 launch event will probably be upon us in just some extra days, and past the brand new {hardware} that’s set to debut, you may certain anticipate Google to be displaying off its newest software program developments. One which’s been on our radar for some time now has been Gemini Proactive Assistance, and up to date discoveries have hinted that it might very effectively land because the next evolution of Magic Cue, probably arriving with the Pixel 11. Forward of subsequent Wednesday’s launch, we’re taking a better take a look at the newest developments there.
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Like Magic Cue, Proactive Help seems to be a system for contextually surfacing helpful data between apps. Along with textual content strings detailing its operation, we’ve additionally taken a take a look at a handful of screenshots previewing how we’ll configure it by Gemini settings. And to these we will now add an early take a look at its onboarding screens:
None of that is notably shocking, and actually simply serves to bolster what we had been already anticipating from Proactive Help. Google intends to stroll customers by the performance to anticipate from the device, and advise them of all of the privateness considerations with the information they share with it.
We uncovered these screens after putting in model 17.47.17.sa.arm64 of the Google app for Android, however you received’t see them in your current Pixel — proper now these are solely set to point out up on Pixel 11 {hardware}. That doesn’t imply Proactive Help won’t ever lengthen to older units just like the Pixel 10, however don’t anticipate it proper out of the gate.
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It additionally doesn’t seem to be Proactive Help is about to outright substitute Magic Cue, as taking a look at Google’s work on one other new Pixel 11 function, the AI-powered Conversation Capture voice notes, we proceed to search out specific references to Magic Cue. We could have to attend for subsequent week’s launch to get the complete image on how all these components are set to suit collectively.
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