Google has already replaced Assistant with Gemini on Chromebooks

A few days ago, Google published a blog post revealing that by sometime later this year, Google Assistant will be replaced by the Gemini AI assistant on most mobile devices. The company also said that devices like tablets, cars, headphones, watches etc will also see this change.

And now, turns out the process has already begun. Spotted by Sammobile, a community manager on Google’s official Chromebook support forum shared an announcement recently about the availability of Chrome OS M134. As part of the change log, it’s shared that users should now expect to interact with Gemini instead of Google Assistant.

Assistive experiences on Chromebooks are now powered by Gemini: Starting in M134, assistive experiences on Chromebooks will be powered by Gemini. When triggering Assistant, you will automatically be directed to the Gemini app on your Chromebook

The following screenshot shows the Gemini icon on the top left on the launcher window:

Although it’s currently not possible to invoke Gemini using a hot word (like you’d do for Google Assistant) as well as the limitation that Gemini doesn’t work with Google Home at the moment, the change shows that Google is being really aggressive when it comes to its Gemini AI assistant. Just today, we highlighted that the company has even removed the requirement of being logged in to your Google account in order to access Gemini on web.

As for Google Assistant, it’s already being dismantled before being phased out completely – a lot of its features, that Google says are “underutilized”, are being axed. Checkout the details in screenshot below:

R.I.P Google Assistant.