Google Assistant, Google's Artificial Intelligence (AI) based personal voice assistant is now available on more than 100 million devices since launching last year, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google said during a recent call with analysts. Google Assistant has seen device-level integrations in chat application Google Allo, in its smart home device Google Home, and exclusively on Pixel phones that were launched last year. Google, however, opened up the voice assistant platform on its latest Android versions Marshmallow (6.0) and Nougat (7.0) supported devices in select countries in February. Apart from this, Pichai said that the AI based assistant is available on “more than 70 home automation partners on the Assistant on Google Home and Phones, including Honeywell, Logitech and LG. The tech giant is also increasingly focusing on machine learning features in Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail and Google Photos. Pichai added that these products with machine learning/AI features are used by more than 500 million monthly users, and they are backing up at least 1.2 billion photos and videos every day. Some other takeaways from Alphabet’s earnings and call with analysts: On Android, Play Store and Daydream VR Pichai also revealed that Android now has 2 billion monthly active Android devices around the world. “We're seeing a number of hardware makers launching devices to positive reviews, including the Samsung Galaxy S8 and LG G6.” During the quarter, the company gave developers early access to Android O, which according to Pichai will help better “vitals (capacities) like battery life and performance.”…
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