Google I/O 2024: From major Gemini boost to AI scam protection, top 5 features coming to Android phones

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Google unveils ‘future of AI assistants' with Project Astra. Everything you need to know Top new features coming to Android phones: Google first brought the Circle to Search feature with Pixel 8 series last year and the feature was later also extended to the flagship Samsung Galaxy S24 series. The Android maker is now planning to enhance the functionality of this AI feature by enabling students to complete their homework.

The new functionality in Cirlce to Search will provide students a step by step guide to solving a range of physics and math problems. Google also stated that while Cirlce to Search is already available in over 100 million devices, it is planning to bring that experience to more devices. Whether the feature will remain exclusive to Google and Samsung devices or rollout to more OEMs in the future does remains to be seen.

Google announced on Tuesday that it is providing a major boost to Gemini Nano, it's lightweight on-device AI model seen on Pixel and Samsung devices. The new model Gemini Nano 1.0 comes with multimodal capabilities ,meaning it can understand sights, sounds and spoken words, apart from the text prompts. The latest AI model will first be rolled out with the Pixel 9 series later this year.

Also Read | Google I/O 2024: From Gemini 1.5 Flash to new AI features in Android, check out the top announcements Google has confirmed that it will use the multimodal abilities of Gemini Nano to provide real-time alerts if it detects a pattern consistent with commonly associated scams. The tech giant has confirmed that AI scam protection will be an opt-in feature, it will not be turned on by default and users will have to manually confirm their choice of using the new AI tool. Moreover, Google says the use