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Title: Gemini is coming to Google Home in October with both free and paid
versions

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:23:34 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/gemi...

Gemini is launching in early access on smart displays and speakers in
October, Google announced in a new blog post. Gemini for Home will replace
Google Assistant on the company's smart home devices, and will apparently be
available in both free and paid versions, implying Google is interested in
expanding its subscription business, not unlike Amazon is with Alexa+.

Google originally demoed Gemini for Home back at CES 2025. At the time, the
company was primarily promising that generative AI would make conversations
with smart devices more natural by removing the need for wooden voice
commands. You can speak to Gemini like you would a human being and get the
results you'd expect, whether its an answer to a trivia question or an
adjustment to your thermostat. The real promise of Gemini integration is how
the AI assistant's multimodal features could use inputs from other Nest
devices ΓÇö a video feed from a security camera, for example ΓÇö to answer
more complex questions about what's happening in your home.

For Google's October early access rollout release, the company seems to be
guaranteeing all of those same improvements, on top of offering access to
Gemini Live for even more personalized conversations. What Google's blog post
doesn't cover is how much all this costs and what Gemini features will be
locked behind a subscription. Back at CES, the company said that Nest Aware
subscribers ΓÇö who pay $10 per month ΓÇö would get early access to Gemini in
Google Home later this year. The paid version of the AI assistant could just
be rolled into Google's existing subscription, but the company might also
offer it as a separate add-on.

Gemini for Home launches in early access in October. Google says it will
"share more details soon" about the rollout. Maybe that news will be paired
with the release of a new Nest speakers and smart displays. The last Nest Hub
was released in 2021, which suggests the lineup is more than due for a
refresh.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/gemi...
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