Google Maps integrates Gemini AI for enhanced navigation and location features

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Google Maps is replacing Google Assistant with Gemini, its generative AI, to power new navigation and location features. Gemini will offer more complex conversational commands, provide richer location details, and introduce a new Lens feature for on-site information. It will also offer landmark-based navigation instead of just distance. The AI's integration aims to reduce "hallucinations" by grounding responses in Google's extensive data, with rollouts beginning on Android and iOS soon, followed by Android Auto.


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