Mobile app developers, including Patreon and Grammarly, are already integrating with Gemini Nano, its smallest AI model, the company announced during the Google I/O 2024 developer keynote on Tuesday. The companies, along with other select developers, were invited to work with Gemini Nano through an early access program announced last year, the company said. In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.
In an example of how apps are working with Gemini, Google noted that crowdfunding site Patreon is building a feature that will allow creators to “rapidly catch up” on unread messages — a feature that resembles how Google is integrating Gemini into Gmail to summarize your emails.
Another early adopter is the writing helper, Grammarly, which has been experimenting with Gemini Nano while building out its smart suggestions technology that helps users better refine their writing.
Google didn’t offer more detail on the integrations themselves, it only pointed to them as examples of how developers could take advantage of Gemini Nano in their own apps and services.
At the event, Google announced a number of updates for Gemini, including integrations in Google’s own apps, like Messages, YouTube and Gmail, both online and on mobile, as well as other ways it can make using your Android smartphone easier — like warning you about scam calls, for example — and much more.
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It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap…
![Google mentioned ‘AI’ 120+ times during its I/O keynote](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-11.50.46 AM.png?w=1024)
Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications.
![Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/firebase_io-1-of-1.jpg?w=738)
In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.
![Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image000000.jpg?w=1024)
As part of the update, Reddit also launched a dedicated AMA tab within the web post composer.
![Reddit introduces new tools for ‘Ask Me Anything,’ its Q&A feature](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/reddit-ipo-v2.webp?w=1024)
Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.
![Google I/O 2024: Here’s everything Google just announced](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-14-at-12.04.58 PM.png?w=1024)
LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google’s Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.
![LearnLM is Google’s new family of AI models for education](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/james-manyika-google-io.png?w=917)
The official launch comes almost a year after YouTube began experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app.
![Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/LearnLM-YouTube-Demo2.png?w=955)
Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported…
![Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/motional-layoffs-resize.png?w=1024)
The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.
![Google I/O 2024: Watch all of the AI, Android reveals](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/GettyImages-956088114.jpg?w=1024)
Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools.
![Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/GettyImages-1065837148.jpg?w=1024)
Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.
![Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gemini-App-Demo-Google-IO.png?w=921)
Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and timelapses, and make edits and adjustments to already-generated footage.
![Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ETB2801.jpg?w=1024)
In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyze attachments, like PDFs.
![Gemini comes to Gmail to summarize, draft emails, and more](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_9465.jpg?w=1024)
The summaries are created based on Gemini’s analysis of insights from Google Maps’ community of more than 300 million contributors.
![Google is bringing Gemini capabilities to Google Maps Platform](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages-1207206244.jpg?w=1024)
Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service.
![Project IDX, Google’s next-gen IDE, is now in open beta](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5229.jpg?w=1024)
The system effectively listens for “conversation patterns commonly associated with scams” in-real time.
![Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/4.-Scam-detection.jpeg?w=749)
The standard Gemma models were only available in 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions, making this quite a step up.
![Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/google-gemma2.png?w=1024)
This is a great example of a company using generative AI to open its software to more users.
![Google TalkBack will use Gemini to describe images for blind people](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/3.-Talkback-with-Gemini.2024-05-13-10_27_01.gif?w=800)
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features.
![Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5225.jpg?w=1024)
Google’s Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems.
![Circle to Search is now a better homework helper](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/android-circle-to-search.jpeg?w=1024)
People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need.
![Google experiments with using video to search, thanks to Gemini AI](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/google-video-search-1.png?w=1024)
A search results page based on generative AI as its ranking mechanism will have wide-reaching consequences for online publishers.
![Google will soon start using GenAI to organize some search results pages](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5130.jpg?w=1024)
Google has built a custom Gemini model for search to combine real-time information, Google’s ranking, long context and multimodal features.
![Google is adding more AI to its search results](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Google-Search-Gemini-IO-2024.png?w=1024)
At its Google I/O developer conference, Google on Tuesday announced the next generation of its Tensor Processing Units (TPU) AI chips.
![Google’s next-gen TPUs promise a 4.7x performance boost](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/D4F454D7-798F-43F3-A8EB-4DA57B8CCC1B.jpg?w=1024)
Google is upgrading Gemini, its AI-powered chatbot, with features aimed at making the experience more ambient and contextually useful.
![Google’s Gemini updates: How Project Astra is powering some of I/O’s big reveals](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-13-at-10.25.51 PM-1.png?w=1024)
Veo can generate few-seconds-long 1080p video clips given a text prompt.
![Google’s image-generating AI gets an upgrade](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GettyImages-1192414131.jpg?w=1024)
At Google I/O, Google announced upgrades to Gemini 1.5 Pro, including a bigger context window. .
![Google’s generative AI can now analyze hours of video](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gemini-15-2M-Context-Tokens-IO-2024.png?w=1024)
The AI upgrade will make finding the right content more intuitive and less of a manual search process.
![Google Photos introduces an AI search feature, Ask Photos](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sundar-Ask-Photos-Gemini-IO-2024.png?w=1024)
Apple released new data about anti-fraud measures related to its operation of the iOS App Store on Tuesday morning, trumpeting a claim that it stopped over $7 billion in “potentially…
![Apple touts stopping $1.8B in App Store fraud last year in latest pitch to developers](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/apple-app-store-ios.jpg?w=430)
Online travel agency Expedia is testing an AI assistant that bolsters features like search, itinerary building, trip planning, and real-time travel updates.
![Expedia starts testing AI-powered features for search and travel planning](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Expedia-bot.jpg?w=1024)