Google announced Assistant’s phase-out, upgrading devices to Gemini with Android 10+ and 2GB RAM minimum requirements.

Google went from being a dark horse in the AI space to a frontrunner with its Gemini offerings. To keep up that momentum, Google is announcing a slew of Gemini updates that will enhance the AI assistant's overall experience -- including for free users.

Google's AI chatbot Gemini will replace Google Assistant on most mobile devices in 2025, as well as tablets, cars, and more in the future.

This is the first official declaration from Google that the Google Assistant is on its way out, but it’s not like we weren’t expecting it. Gemini is already the default experience on most mainstream Android devices,

The Gemini brand is barely a year old, but Google has moved aggressively to increase usage. When it released the Gemini app on Android, Google forced anyone who installed it to disable Assistant and switch to Gemini.

Google is finally moving on from Google Assistant. The company will be upgrading “more” users from Google Assistant to Gemini “over the coming months,” according to a blog post. The classic Google Assistant “will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads on mobile app stores” at some point “later this year.