The cost of the smart home is going up

Google is expanding its AI-powered Gemini for Home capabilities beyond its cameras and astute speakers to different manufacturers to merchantability much subscriptions. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Selling the astute location has been hard. Even Amazon has mislaid money successful the space, contempt putting hundreds of millions of Echo devices successful people's homes. Google has besides reportedly struggled to crook a nett from its important investment successful Nest. But present Google is seeing dollar signs successful the imaginable of selling AI-driven subscriptions successful the astute home. And it's not alone.

At Google I/O this week, Google announced it's expanding its Gemini for Home APIs to let companies to integrate much of its Gemini-powered astute location features into their ain apps. In a blog post, Google's Ravi Akella, manager of merchandise absorption for the Home Platform, …

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