At I/O 2026, Google announced something called Gemini Intelligence. It's the company's next step toward turning Android from a mobile OS into a personal AI agent that can get things done for you on your phone.

It can automate multi-step tasks across your Android apps and even enable new features in Chrome, Autofill, Gboard, and widgets.

Gemini Intelligence is different from Gemini in Search, where Google's AI can summarize your web results. It's also different from Gemini in Workspace, where it lives inside apps like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets, or the standalone Gemini app, where you open the AI chatbot and ask for help. Gemini Intelligence is built into Android and can understand what's on your screen.

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With Gemini Intelligence, you won't have to hop between apps to copy information, paste it elsewhere, and do every step yourself.

Gemini Intelligence can now handle several different app-based tasks for you. In practice, that could look like helping you get a front-row bike during a spin class, finding a college course syllabus buried in Gmail and adding books to your cart, turning a grocery list in your notes into a delivery, or using a photo of a travel brochure to find a relevant tour on Expedia for six people.