Google Expands Access to Gemini Live, Its Real-Time AI Assistant; All You Need To Know

Google is expanding the availability of Gemini Live, its AI-powered assistant that allows users to have real-time, two-way conversations with the Gemini model on their phone's screen or camera. The feature first debuted in March 2025 for Gemini Advanced subscribers, but is now being released more broadly, beginning with all users of the Gemini app on Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 phones.

Gemini Live enables people to naturally interact with AI in more than 45 languages, making it a visual, powerful assistant. With a simple point of their phone's camera at something or just by sharing what's on their screen, users can ask questions, seek advice, or work together on tasks in a fluid, conversational way.

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This makes Gemini a smart companion that answers in real time to what users say and what they share.

The technology behind Gemini Live is based on Project Astra, a proof of concept demonstrated at Google I/O 2024 by Google DeepMind. Astra was intended to handle input from video, audio, and text at the same time, with immediate feedback. Astra was demonstrated by answering questions using imagery from a phone's camera in the demo. It created a crayon alliteration, explicated coding functions, bettered a circuit diagram, and even found a misplaced pair of glasses. Remarkably, it identified London's King's Cross district just by glancing out of a window.

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The launch represents an important milestone in Google's AI endeavors, particularly after it drew criticism last year when portions of its Gemini demo were found to be staged. This time, the firm was more transparent in explaining that Astra demo clips were shot in two single takes.

As Gemini Live grows, it establishes Google's assistant as an extremely interactive, real-world AI device—spanning the distance between virtual intelligence and practical usefulness.

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