Gemini's new beta feature provides proactive responses based on your photos, emails, and more | TechCrunch

"Google announced on Wednesday that it's launching a new beta feature in the Gemini app that allows the AI assistant to tailor its responses by connecting across your Google ecosystem, starting with Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube history. Although Gemini could already retrieve information from these apps, it can now reason across your data to provide proactive results, such as connecting a thread in your emails to a video you watched."

"The tech giant notes that this beta experience, called Personal Intelligence, is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini. Of course, not everyone wants AI looking at their photos and YouTube history. If you do decide to connect your apps, Gemini will only use Personal Intelligence when it determines that doing so will be helpful, Google says."

""Personal Intelligence has two core strengths: reasoning across complex sources and retrieving specific details from, say, an email or photo to answer your question," wrote Josh Woodward, VP, Gemini app, Google Labs, and AI Studio, in a blog post. "It often combines these, working across text, photos and video to provide uniquely tailored answers." Woodward shared an example of when he was standing in line at a tire shop and didn't remember his car's tire size."

Google launched a Personal Intelligence beta in the Gemini app that links Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube history so the assistant can reason across user data and produce proactive, tailored responses. The feature is off by default and requires explicit user opt-in; Gemini will employ Personal Intelligence only when it judges doing so will be helpful. Capabilities include reasoning across complex sources, retrieving specific details from emails or photos, and combining text, images, and video to answer queries. Demonstrated uses include identifying tire size from past data, suggesting all-weather tires after detecting family road-trip photos, and extracting a license plate number from a photo.

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