Google Announces Gemini Intelligence: Just Tell the AI What to Do
Technology giant Google announced Gemini Intelligence at the Android Show: I/O Edition event held in the early hours of Tuesday (13 May 2026) US time.
According to Android experience director Ben Greenwood, this feature will bring the best capabilities of Gemini to high-end Android devices such as the Samsung Galaxy S26 series and the latest Google Pixel phones.
Gemini Intelligence is essentially a term for a suite of Gemini features, both new and existing. However, under this name, the Gemini features are made more integrated with Android.
Not only that, the AI features in Gemini Intelligence are also more advanced, intelligent, and proactive. This is because Google has injected AI agents that enable the AI to operate autonomously, even capable of performing multi-step tasks across applications.
The new Task Automation is now available for several ride-sharing and food delivery apps. With this feature, users can ask Gemini to place food or online taxi orders without having to do it manually.
This differs from previous chatbot usage, where users mostly just ask questions or input prompts to complete a single task.
However, with the new Gemini Intelligence, the Gemini AI features seem to have more initiative and can perform a series of tasks independently, without needing frequent user commands.
In the future, Gemini will support more apps. This means users will be able to ask or instruct the Gemini AI to do more things autonomously.
Google has also added multimodal capabilities, allowing users not only to give commands via text or voice but also through images or screenshots.
For example, users can send a screenshot of a shopping list from a notes app, and Gemini will automatically add those items to the digital shopping cart.
Another feature is Create My Widget, which allows users to create Android widgets simply by providing a description of the desired widget. According to Google, this feature is an initial step towards “generative UI”.
An example for this feature is creating a custom weather widget for cyclists. The widget is designed to display wind speed and rainfall.
Users can also set the widget to show high-protein meal prep recipe suggestions for each week.
In addition to smartphones, these customisable widgets will also be available for Wear OS running on smartwatches.