"Even if you don't go looking for AI bots, they're being integrated into virtually every product and service. And for what? There's a lot of hand-wavey chatter about agentic this and AGI that, but what can "gen AI" do for you right now? Gemini for Home is Google's latest attempt to make this technology useful, integrating Gemini with the smart home devices people already have."
"This is part of Google's higher-tier paid service, which comes with extended camera history and Gemini features for $20 per month. That subscription pipes your video into a Gemini AI model that generates summaries for notifications, as well as a "Daily Brief" that offers a rundown of everything that happened on a given day. The cheaper $10 plan provides less video history and no AI-assisted summaries or notifications. Both plans enable Gemini Live on smart speakers."
Gemini for Home integrates Google's Gemini generative AI with Nest camera event clips to produce AI-labeled notifications, daily summaries, and a Daily Brief. The feature is available to higher-tier subscribers who pay $20 per month for extended camera history; a $10 plan offers reduced history and no AI summaries. Gemini analyzes event clips rather than full continuous video to reduce compute. The system can recognize and answer questions about events but frequently mislabels activity and issues false or alarming alerts, including mistaken home-invasion warnings. Both plans support Gemini Live on smart speakers.
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