Google Home Accelerates Global Gemini Smart Assistant Rollout
Anish Kattukaran, head of Google Home, confirmed on social media on May 3 that Gemini for Home upgrades will continue to accelerate across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region this week, building on significant expansions over the past two weeks. This announcement signals a notable acceleration in Google’s global rollout of its AI-powered smart home assistant.
Kattukaran stated that Google is clearing the early access queue daily, with users who opt in through the Home app being bumped to the top of the list. The expanded rollout covers 16 markets, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand.
Gemini for Home is Google’s smart home AI assistant upgrade program that began rolling out in 2024, designed to integrate the capabilities of Google’s Gemini large language model into the Google Home ecosystem. Users can interact with a smarter, more contextually aware assistant through voice commands, enabling more complex smart home control, information queries, and daily task management.
Google has been continuously optimizing Gemini for Home’s performance over recent months, with the latest updates focusing on improved response speed and accuracy. At the same time, Google is expanding language support, allowing more non-English speakers to interact with Gemini naturally in their native languages.
Notably, Google has also been exploring Gemini integration with third-party smart speakers. Early product listings suggest that the upcoming Google Home Speaker will be the first new smart speaker device equipped with Gemini, indicating that Google is building a more open smart home AI ecosystem.
For users in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, this large-scale rollout means they will soon have access to the same AI-driven smart home features available in the United States, further narrowing the technology gap between markets.
Source: 9to5Google