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TechCrunch put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful
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Gemini Spark is Google’s new 24/7 agentic assistant, designed to help you help you “navigate your digital life,” which means getting your online to-dos done, summarizing the things you don’t have time to read (like the entirety of your inbox), or organizing something that would have otherwise involved too much screen time-filled manual labor, like a personal expenses spreadsheet.
Key facts
- Nevertheless, with early access to Gemini Spark, the reporter decided to put it through its paces, with what are perhaps some real-world suggestions of their own
- The reporter asked for the final list to be imported into Google Keep
- For their last request, the reporter set Gemini Spark to work on tracking price drops for an expensive eye cream
- And, unfortunately, for iPhone users, tapping into Gemini Spark directly from your device through a push of a hardware button or gesture won’t be possible, unless Apple announces this at next month’s
Summary
The service was first introduced at Google’s annual developer conference in May, where CEO Sundar Pichai joked that Spark, which runs on virtual machines in the cloud, means that “yes, you can close your laptop.” The in-joke here is that he’s comparing Spark to other agentic AI systems, like the ever-popular OpenClaw, which require keeping the machine awake to run its tasks. Spark, he’s suggesting, is agentic AI for the rest of them, those who would rather get things done without nerding out about it by setting up an always-on AI machine.
Google also struggles a bit to come up with real-world examples that would convince someone that Spark is a “must-have” rather than a “nice-to-have” tool for personal use.