The Mac should be entitled to a Gemini app

Using an AI bot via a web browser is great… but it's even better when you can use it in a 'native' app, better suited to the operating system and allowing you to take advantage of native features. OpenAI has thus released ChatGPT and Codex as software for Mac, while Anthropic offers its own app, Claude. And Google?

Google is behind the competition

Gemini is still confined to the web for now. Not for long: Bloomberg has indeed heard that a macOS application is in development for Google's chatbot. It would even be in the beta testing phase with external users. It would be a preliminary version, still incomplete, aiming to gather feedback before a public launch, which seems imminent given the stakes.

The app should make it easier to access Gemini than through the web alone, with classic generative AI functions (text, images, video, music, data analysis) and better document management. Google is also testing a function much more integrated into the system, "Desktop Intelligence," so that AI can interact with other Mac software (like the calendar) and analyze the content displayed on the screen. This would give AI much more context to provide more personalized responses.

In terms of interface, no surprises, it would remain very close to the iPhone and iPad app. Apple shouldn't stay idle either: rumors suggest that an app of its own would give access to its own chatbot, a project linked to the brain transplant of Siri — which will use... Gemini.

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