Today, we’re introducing Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app. With your permission, Gemini can now securely connect information from Google apps like Gmail, Google Photos, Search and YouTube history with a single tap to make Gemini uniquely helpful to you. What does this look like in practice? Instead of digging through multiple tabs or apps, you can just ask Gemini. Here are a few examples of how you might use it: 🚗 Car maintenance: By referencing connected apps like Gmail and Photos, it can understand your car’s make and model, and even the types of trips you take, to give recommendations of tires and info like your license plate number to make your visit to the auto shop go more smoothly. ✈️ Travel planning: Ask for things to do in Chicago, and it uses your travel dates and love for nature photography found in Google Photos to suggest spots you'll like — not just generic "Top 10" lists. We know that connecting your personal apps requires trust. That’s why we built this with privacy at the center. You can disconnect your apps or delete your chat history at any time. This new beta feature is rolling out over the next week to eligible Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. Available for personal Google accounts. Coming soon to more countries, the free tier, and AI Mode in Search. Learn more → goo.gle/45UYGGn
This feels less like a feature update and more like a step toward AI as an operating layer. Once an assistant can coordinate across email, photos, search history, and intent, the core question isn’t capability — it’s control. Personalization is powerful, but only if permissions, defaults, and interruption points remain genuinely human-owned. If AI is becoming OS-like, trust won’t come from explanations alone. It will come from clear boundaries, reversibility, and the ability for humans to say “stop” — reliably. Impressive work. The design choices from here matter a lot.
Wondering how privacy and security will be twisted from this point on. Users can give gemini permission to read their inbox but is the sender fine with it or even aware of it? 🤔 seems a nice way to scrape sensitive data from multiple users with a single unaware consent. Why not let people pick a local Gemma model instead of just Gemini?
We need to critically reassess whether 'disconnect & delete' options are truly the ultimate safeguard for privacy. As long as these personalized solutions rely on Cloud computing rather than On-Device processing, the architectural vulnerability remains. Once data leaves the device, reactive measures like 'deletion' lose their significance. The real question is: Does the convenience justify the inherent risk? It is time for us to pivot our focus—not on what more to add via the cloud, but on what to subtract to achieve a genuinely secure user experience through On-Device execution.
Oh boy!
Cuando la IA conoce tu correo, tus fotos y tu historial, deja de ser una herramienta. Se convierte en un actor de decisión. La Inteligencia Personal no es un avance menor: es un cambio de poder. Las organizaciones que no trabajen hoy gobernanza, ética y riesgo algorítmico, mañana no tendrán control sobre cómo la IA influye en personas, clientes y equipos. La ventaja competitiva no será usar IA primero, será usarla con responsabilidad y visión sistémica.
Receiving reccomendations are great, but I’m curious how much bias is developed, even if it’s based off of the users own content.
The integration of Gemini across the Google ecosystem is a major milestone in transitioning from reactive chatbots to proactive agents. The real technical complexity isn't just the connectivity, but the semantic orchestration across such diverse data silos (Gmail, Search, YouTube). Balancing high-fidelity retrieval with the latency required for a 'real-time' personal assistant is a non-trivial engineering challenge that goes far beyond standard RAG.
Personalization is not the breakthrough. Permissioned orchestration is. The real value here is not that Gemini knows more about you, it is that users can decide when context is applied and where it compounds value. That makes trust a product feature, not a policy page. If Google gets granular control right, this moves AI from assistant to infrastructure. If they do not, users will feel surveilled instead of supported. The difference is governance, not capability.
Gemini is becoming the ultimate AI assistant! The ability to pull data from Gmail and Photos with privacy at the center is a game-changer for user experience. Can’t wait to see how this impacts local SEO and personalized search results. What do you guys think will be the biggest benefit for small businesses? 🤔
The announcement of Personal Intelligence for Gemini marks the shift from a "smart encyclopedia" to a genuine Personal Assistant. The biggest limitation of current LLMs is that they know everything about the world, but nothing about my context. Integrating with Gmail, Photos, and Drive solves this gap. As someone who values efficiency and the "Second Brain" concept, the ability to stop digging through multiple tabs and just ask Gemini to connect the dots (like vehicle maintenance records or travel details) is a massive game-changer. This is a huge step forward in making AI truly useful for daily tasks, not just content generation. Eagerly waiting for this feature to roll out in our region!