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Google Working on Native Gemini AI App for Mac to Rival ChatGPT and Claude

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Google is developing a native Gemini app for the Mac, reports Bloomberg. Right now, Mac users who want to use Google's Gemini AI have to use a web browser, but that will change with a dedicated Mac app.

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Google competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI have dedicated Mac apps for their chatbots, potentially making Claude and ChatGPT more convenient to use than Gemini.

Google shared an early version of the Gemini app with beta testers this week to get feedback, but it's not clear when it might launch. Google has not provided release date information for the Gemini Mac app, and testers were told that the app only has "critical features," suggesting there's more to come before release. The app apparently looks similar to the Gemini apps designed for iPhone and iPad.

The app is able to search the web, analyze uploaded documents, and maintain a conversation history. Google is asking users to test content generation tools for images, tables and charts, video, music, and more, plus provide feedback on mathematical questions and information analysis.

Gemini for Mac will be able to integrate with other Mac apps through a Desktop Intelligence feature, mirroring functionality available with tools like Claude Cowork. Gemini will be able to read the Mac's display, using the content to personalize Gemini and allow the AI to complete tasks.

Bloomberg says the Mac Gemini app includes wording about how Desktop Intelligence works. "When you enable apps for Desktop Intelligence you are enabling Gemini to see what you see (such as screen context) and pull content directly from these apps to improve and personalize your experience only when Gemini is in use," reads app code.

With iOS 27 and macOS 27, Apple plans to introduce its own Siri chatbot that will rival Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT. Apple has partnered with Google, and the Siri chatbot will use an AI model developed by Google.

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Claude CoWork plus the new Dispatch feature plus local MCP integrations + LM studio Link (Tailscale), there’s so much to get done even while not at home and basically free: Local LMs to do the heavy lifting and CoWork to do the meta reasoning, context server for tools and api/symbol maps and chrome integration, and that’s before you get memory and other features of Claude Code… ChatGPT barely competes with the integration of Claude, what is Google going to do but just waste my precious RAM…
 
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What a weird world we live in... that Google would finally have the sense to build a native Mac app. The shine on their crown is starting to tarnish, and they know it.

As for Siri 2.0, at the pace of AI evolution right now, I have my doubts. Apple needs to pull a seriously capable rabbit out of a hat... especially if Google is planning to compete with them directly, while having a partnership.
 
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as long as it gets better voice transcription than the gemini ios app or gemini in the browser... this alone makes gemini unusable for me. I PRAY to Steve Jobs that the new siri will not rely on this, otherwise it will be DOA.
 
jayducharme said:
Wouldn't this be a bit redundant, if Siri is going to be adopting Gemini as a backend?
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Questions sent from Siri to chatGPT are anonymized. Those asked to the new Siri powered by Gemini will be processed on the device or in the Google cloud, but only with Apple's access, meaning no data can be extracted.
That's why they need this app.
 
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Google is developing a native Gemini app for the Mac, reports Bloomberg. Right now, Mac users who want to use Google's Gemini AI have to use a web browser, but that will change with a dedicated Mac app.

google-gemini.jpg

Google competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI have dedicated Mac apps for their chatbots, potentially making Claude and ChatGPT more convenient to use than Gemini.

Google shared an early version of the Gemini app with beta testers this week to get feedback, but it's not clear when it might launch. Google has not provided release date information for the Gemini Mac app, and testers were told that the app only has "critical features," suggesting there's more to come before release. The app apparently looks similar to the Gemini apps designed for iPhone and iPad.

The app is able to search the web, analyze uploaded documents, and maintain a conversation history. Google is asking users to test content generation tools for images, tables and charts, video, music, and more, plus provide feedback on mathematical questions and information analysis.

Gemini for Mac will be able to integrate with other Mac apps through a Desktop Intelligence feature, mirroring functionality available with tools like Claude Cowork. Gemini will be able to read the Mac's display, using the content to personalize Gemini and allow the AI to complete tasks.

Bloomberg says the Mac Gemini app includes wording about how Desktop Intelligence works. "When you enable apps for Desktop Intelligence you are enabling Gemini to see what you see (such as screen context) and pull content directly from these apps to improve and personalize your experience only when Gemini is in use," reads app code.

With iOS 27 and macOS 27, Apple plans to introduce its own Siri chatbot that will rival Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT. Apple has partnered with Google, and the Siri chatbot will use an AI model developed by Google.

Article Link: Google Working on Native Gemini AI App for Mac to Rival ChatGPT and Claude
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We don’t want Gemini, Gemini sucks boo apple to make deal with those creeps, ChatGPT sucks too only Claude is good
 
Is Gemini still bundled with Google One? Because until they unbundle that, their service is a non-starter for me. I can test drive ChatGPT, Claude, etc for 1 month for $20 and then return to exactly where I was before.

With Gemini if I test drive and then cancel, I lose my existing Google One subscription. I thankfully realized this JUST BEFORE trying it out. This was last year so maybe things are better but these sort of anti-consumer practices against existing Google customers has me rooting for them to lose the AI race.
 
No thank you. I use non-Apple AI only on iPad, where apps get sandboxed. AI is great for searching the web. Claude does a pretty good job at creating Plain TeX macros. Sometimes I use another app to fix puzzling issues in the macros. AI writing is wordy, redundant, staid, often containing content errors. AI artwork is boring, plus it steals the styles of living artists. Generative AI needs a human babysitter plus an ethics nanny.
 
So let me get this straight. Google is now making a native Gemini app for MacOS while at the same time Apple is renting to the tune of $1,000,000,000 per year Google Gemini as the new basis for Apple Intelligence AND Siri.

So any and all Mac’s will become like the real Gemini….two faced twins.

So explain to me how it will work when Google’s Gemini app interacts with Apple Intelligence which itself will be run by Google Gemini ?
 
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Claude CoWork plus the new Dispatch feature plus local MCP integrations + LM studio Link (Tailscale), there’s so much to get done even while not at home and basically free: Local LMs to do the heavy lifting and CoWork to do the meta reasoning, context server for tools and api/symbol maps and chrome integration, and that’s before you get memory and other features of Claude Code… ChatGPT barely competes with the integration of Claude, what is Google going to do but just waste my precious RAM…
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Just reading up on Tailscale.... so cool! 🤩 This is the type of edge innovation that we should be hearing from Apple!
 
coolfactor said:
Competition. Google can make far more money by collecting directly from consumers. And who knows about the privacy and data collection goals...

The partnership with Google is only a temporary solution. Ultimately, Apple will bring Siri's LLM fully in-house.
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"Ultimately, Apple will bring Siri's LLM fully in-house."

Not so sure. They didn't have any such success with search and a home-grown social media network. And they haven't yet had any success with LLMs. My guess is that they just don't have the innate muscle for such--they are not the only big company that doesn't. Oracle, IBM, even Facebook apparently aren't having any luck. Maybe they purchase Anthropic or something, or maybe they just continue to outsource and hope the price gets driven to a commodity.
 
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