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Android 17 launches with multitasking tools and expanded Gemini features
Tags AI · Consumer · Mobile
TechCrunch·
Google has released Android 17 alongside Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking capabilities, enhanced parental controls, and upgraded security tools. A simultaneous Pixel Drop delivers Google's latest Gemini AI models directly to Pixel devices. The release represents Google's most significant integration of on-device AI into its mobile platform to date, bringing system-level AI to the Android ecosystem.
Technical significance
Android 17's deep Gemini integration means Google's AI assistant will now have system-level access across the Android ecosystem, affecting 3+ billion devices. This is the largest deployment of an AI assistant to date and sets the expectation that AI will be a baseline OS feature.