Made By Google is here, which means smarter phones, fancier watches, and even more AI. Ahead of the event, Google announced that its AI assistant hit more than one billion monthly users. It's not just brand loyalty either, with more than 100 million of those querists turning to the app from iOS devices. Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to the company, and more than half of Gemini's users speak directly to their AI helper rather than relying on text.It's the fastest-growing Google product of all time, according to the tech giant.

So it makes sense that Google would start the event — and spend a majority of host Trevor Noah's time — talking about Gemini Intelligence. Gemini Intelligence on the Pixel 11Google is banking on making Gemini a genuinely "useful" AI assistant, what Noah ironically likened to the mass adoption of GLP-1s. "They take things off of your plate," he joked during the event's talk-show format. Later, Noah said that previous iterations of Google's AI were more like a "cool promise" than anything people would use in their everyday life.

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And Google agreed. The solution, in the company's eyes, is to upgrade Pixel phones with even more native Gemini Intelligence features. That includes enhanced live translation for podcasts, YouTube videos, and third party apps (the feature was introduced for phone calls last year) and a major AI accessibility upgrade with ASL-to-text.Google also announced the new Rambler feature, a Pixel phone feature that automatically filters out filler words, cleans up sentences, and "reads" a user's intent to produce a more streamlined speech-to-text experience.